"Discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation is not consistent with our values and is unacceptable in the National Football League, " he said.

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Eisenhower was basically a Dewey Republican but being a Texas-born, Kansas-bred Westerner with a religious orientation and someone who could speak to Western values (and was pretty obviously comfortable in boots), he could appeal to the Taft wing.

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