Eisenhower did act modestly on behalf of blacks. Pressed by Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., he signed two moderate civil rights bills, in 1957 and 1960, which gave the Justice Department a bit of power to safeguard blacks' voting rights, and he reluctantly sent troops to Little Rock, Ark., to enforce the integration of a public high school. Like other people, many blacks came to like Ike. In his landslide 1956 re-election victory he won a surprising 40 percent of the black vote, almost double his 1952 total. On race as on other matters, Eisenhower's presidency marked a transition within the GOP, as power shifted from the liberal Deweyans to the adamantly states'-rights Goldwaterites.