Bush's Social Security Gamble

The Washington Post reviews a new book by Nancy J. Altman, entitled The Battle for Social Security: From FDR's Vision to Bush's Gamble. According to Altman, Republican attacks on Social security have a long and completely unsuccessful history. Eisenhower was one who was having nothing to do with such attacks:

He wrote to his brother Edgar in November 1954, ridiculing oil tycoon H.L. Hunt of Texas and like-minded millionaires who refused to accept Social Security. "Their number is negligible," Ike wrote his brother, "and they are stupid."