Dwight D. Eisenhower
...rganization forces, thus making him the first man to command a large, peacetime multinational force. His genius lay in getting people of diverse background to work together toward a common objective, but he was equally skillful as a strategist and administrator. After he retired from the Army, he was elected Vice-president to Harry Truman. Later republican party leaders who supported NATO came to ask him to run for the 1952 election. The party had lost five presidential elections in a row and was now dominated by conservative senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, who voted against NATO. They feared that Taft would get the nomination and lose the election to President Truman-or ,if he won, take the United States out of NATO. In April of 1952 Eisenhower announced that he would seek the republican nomination. A bitter fight for the votes of delegates to the party’s national convention ensued between moderates who supported Eisenhower and conservatives who wanted Taft.Taft supporters controlled the causes, and it seemed he would get a majority of the delegates. At the convention it appeared that 35 of California’s 70 delegates would go to Taft. However, Richard M. Nixion, that states junior senator, prevented that and thereby ensured Eisenhower’s nomination. Nixon’s reward was a spot on the ticket as candidate for vice president. After Eisenhower’s inauguration, it soon became clear that his policy was not to go on the offensive in Korean War, but to end it. He warned the communist Chinese that unless they signed an armistice, he wou...