I Guess He Liked Ike Too

An excerpt from the book Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left, by Ronald Radosh:

By the time of the Cold War, my father found that his past activity with the Reds had put him on the industry blacklist. Despite his reputation as a first-rate designer, firms were reluctant to hire him. He then did what scores of other blacklisted union activists close to the Communist Party did: he became a capitalist. He went into business with an old neighborhood friend whose cousin had owned one of the major hat firms in America. And in one of those strange quirks of history, my pro-Communist father ended up getting the contract for the official Eisenhower hats in the 1952 campaign, which he created in the factory he now owned.