ABSTRACT
The Massachusetts Republican asserted in a letter to the Governor of New Hampshire that Dwight D. Eisenhower, during conversations with him at Columbia University, had told him he supported "enlightened Republican doctrine" and had a Republican "voting record." The political opportunities Eisenhower had and rejected in the postwar years are well known, and perceptive books and articles on Eisenhower and the 1952 election can be found elsewhere. In early November the Eisenhowers returned to the States for the first time since leaving Columbia, and reporters questioned him constantly about politics. The Eisenhowers arrived in Washington on November 4, after a brief visit in Kentucky with John G. Jackson and Barbara Eisenhower, who were expecting their third child. Eisenhower's friends on the airplane that afternoon knew well Eisenhower's passionate opposition to Taft's isolationism. Eisenhower may have been referring to rumors that David B. Truman had offered to support the General on the Democratic ticket in 1952.
