Candidacy Quotes



The wording implied that if the upcoming convention should draft him for a second term, he would run. But the convention was more interested in politics than in exegesis. Coolidge was ignored, and Herbert Hoover won the nomination.


Later, Eisenhower changed his mind and ran for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Truman, who had always been a strong Eisenhower enthusiast, felt that Eisenhower had lied to him and was distrustful of the General ever after.