Ramba uchienderera mberi ndima ino - Draft Eisenhower mafambiro akanga abuda pamberi pesarudzo dza1948, kunyanya muDemocratic Party; muna Chikunguru 1947, Truman akazvipira kumhanya semumiriri waEisenhower pakiti reDemocratic kana Douglas MacArthur akakunda kusarudzwa kweRepublican
. Eisenhower akaramba zvikumbiro zvose zvokupinda mune zvematongerwe enyika. Akafunga kuita chirevo "chakafanana naSherman", asi haana kuramba kumhanyira hutungamiri zvachose saWilliam T. Sherman nekuti, sezvaakanyorera Walter Bedell Smith, "Handitendi kuti iwe kana ini kana chero mumwe munhu ane kodzero yekutaura, zvine mutsindo, kuti haazoite chero basa iro nyika yake ingamudire kwaari".