Eisenhower issued no Sherman-like disclaimer. But just as he’d told MacArthur, there was no driving desire for the job. After all, he had already handled a more important one—the invasion of Europe: He had commanded the mighty force that eventually defeated Nazi Germany. As for politics, in his own mind, it turned out, he was a Republican, conservative at heart, more comfortable with powerful businessmen than with their liberal critics. Yet he had strong ideas about internationalism, and he was reluctant to turn the Republican party, and possibly the country, over to isolationism.
