Eisenhower brought his son John with him, who had graduated from West Point on June 6, 1944—D-day—and had then joined his father on the beaches of Normandy. The day after Eisenhower’s White House fete, Truman wrote Bess: “Eisenhower’s party was a grand success . . . He is a nice fellow and a good man. He’s done a whale of a job. They are running him for President, which is O.K. with me. I’d turn it over to him now if I could.”
