Dwight D. Eisenhower

Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock in 1957 to enforce school desegregation, the first federal troops sent to the South to protect Black citizens' rights since Reconstruction, and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He appointed Earl Warren and William Brennan to the Supreme Court. On the other side, his 1953 executive order expanded loyalty screening to dismiss federal employees, including thousands of gay men and lesbians in the 'Lavender Scare', and he avoided confronting McCarthy publicly for too long.