Clairvoyant... I Hope

I usually try to avoid simply reposting things featured on other blogs (damn you, Wonkette!), but this, via dailyKos, via Sirotablog, is too good not to spread around.

See if you can guess who said the following, and when:

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."

Give up? It was President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954! Let's hope he was right!