After that, if a Republican was ever elected President, Dulles seemed to come with the territory as secretary of state; in fact, he had been apprenticing for some thirty years. He might be the prototype of a powerful Eastern establishment lawyer, but he had always been able to convince the conservatives of his own intense partisanship. After Eisenhower’s election there were reports that at the last minute, Eisenhower had considered John J. McCloy, an Eastern establishment insider, for the job, but he decided against it, fearing the reaction of the Taft wing, which still needed to be appeased.
