Challenge: Elect Douglas MacArthur POTUS

Fairly simple, until you get the catch. He CANNOT campaign in the primaries if one uses 1944 or 1948. You CANNOT remove Eisenhower from the primaries if one uses 1952. You also MUST include the use by the opposite campaign of footage of MacArthur leading the suppression of the Bonus Army.
 
How about this? Fair Play doesn't pass, thus Taft gets the 1952 GOP nomination. He picks MacArthur as his running mate. The Dems panic, but Truman refuses to reenter the race for a third term. Taft puts Stevenson away, and dies in August '53 as per OTL. MacArthur becomes POTUS, and easily defeats Stevenson in 1956, having taken Sen. Richard Nixon as his running mate. Since MacArthur will be 80 in 1960, maybe he dies earlier and we have a POTUS Nixon in 1958. MacArthur is elected, but not initially. ;)
 
Yeah, that's the only realistic way I see of having Dugout Doug becoming POTUS.

The only other way would be a Democratic Ike running against Republican Mac in 1952, but I'm not sure how plausible that is, nor would a MacArthur victory be even close to assured.
 
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