WASHINGTON (AP) - Harry Truman always denied that while in the White House he entertained the idea of having Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower run for president in 1948 - with Truman as his running mate.But a newly discovered diary written by the nation's 33rd president reveals that Truman did make the offer while talking politics one summer afternoon with Eisenhower. Truman worried that Gen. Douglas MacArthur would run for president on the Republican ticket.
"I told Ike," Truman wrote, "that if he (MacArthur) did that he (Eisenhower) should announce for the nomination for President on the Democratic ticket and that I'd be glad to be in second place, or Vice President."
"I like the Senate anyway," the former Missouri senator wrote. "Ike & I could be elected and my family & myself would be happy outside this great white jail, known as the White House."
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