Huge economic growth? What about Sputnik? What about the growth in the Soviet military ? That's what got Kennedy elected.

As I recall, the St. Lawrence seaway was opened during the Eisenhower years, and the interstate highway system also goes in his success column.
As Nixon said at his funeral, "Dwight D. Eisenhower was not only a great man, he was a good man." Man, could we use some of that today...