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Lavender Scare, Eisenhower, and Executive Order 10450

My Country – Eisenhower Upped the Ante Justice Douglas argues that the severity of the Truman order could not compare to Eisenhower’s. Under Eisenhower, an suspected person was at once suspended in the interest of national security. The reasons included: sedition, espionage. communism association with a subversive group immoral conduct or sexual perversion. This last …