Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko nga nekehanga a Eisenhower i puta i mua o te pooti 1948, ko te nuinga i roto i te Rōpū Manapori; i te Hōngongoi 1947, i whakaekea e Truman kia rere hei hoa whakahaere a Eisenhower i runga i te tiikiti Manapori mena ka wikitoria a Douglas MacArthur i te pooti Republican
whakaingoa. I whakakahoretia e Eisenhower ngā tono katoa kia uru atu ki te tōrangapū. I whakaaro ia ki te whakaputa i tetahi korero "rite ki a Sherman", engari kaore ia i whakakahore ki te tu mo te perehitini kia rite ki a William T. Sherman na te mea, i a ia e tuhi ana ki a Walter Bedell Smith, "Kaore au e whakapono ki a koe, ki ahau, ki tetahi atu ranei te tika ki te kii, tino, kaore ia e mahi i tetahi mahi ka tono mai tona whenua ki a ia".