No 22nd Amendment: Ike in 64?

I know this is probably implausible on any number of fronts, but I hope it's a question worth a thought or two.

So let's say for whatever reason the 22nd Amendment is never passed, or passed later in history. Eisenhower becomes president and serves his two terms as in OTL. History proceeds as normal until Kennedy is assassinated. In the months after his death, the GOP fears a wipeout to a President Johnson running on a legacy of the beloved slain President.

Seeking to prevent this, they reach out to former President Eisenhower. Though his health is failing, the party elders convince him that his country needs him, and the old general announces a final campaign, hoping to unite the country in its time of turmoil.

Does he face any significant opposition to the nomination? Who does he pick as his vp? And can he win?
 
I'd guess that he'd run mostly unopposed. For his running mate, Romney hits the sweet spot between fresh face and experience. Eisenhower has a decent shot at victory.
 
Eisenhower was having health problems during his second term and probably would've turned down a third term in 1960. In 1964,he is doing worst.

If he runs,then I feel he will face opposition from Rockefeller,Romney,and other 'fresh face' candidates although he probably will win.

He would probably also pick Romney,Rockefeller,or Scranton as his running mate. Maybe he could also choose Lodge.

Regardless,if he wins he will die in office and be succeeded by his VP. Nixon may be butterflied away by this or he may run and become President later.

If he loses,the Democrats may begin to support term limits.

Oh,another thing is that in OTL he died in 1969 of congestive heart failure. I am willing to pet he could die earlier due to the stress of the job or even on the campaign trail if he has a heart attack. It's a mixed bag honestly if the GOP run him just because he was popular,they'd have to worry about his health too so his VP pick would be very important.
 
If there is no 22nd Amendment, it is surely more likely that Ike will run for president in 1960 than in 1964. (I don't say it's *likely* he will do it even in 1960--only that it is *more* likely that he would do it then than in 1964. For one thing, he'd be four years younger--though he already had health problems--and for another he was worried about the Democratic "spenders" who had gained big majorities in Congress in 1958 and might no longer be checked by a veto if JFK defeated Nixon; also, he disliked JFK, whom he thought a "playboy"--if he had to be succeeded by a Democrat, he would prefer someone more "mature" like LBJ...)

Incidentally, there *was* a move by *National Review* to draft Ike as *vice*-president with a Goldwater-Eisenhower ticket in 1964. For James Jackson Kilpatrick's defense of the constitutionality of that, see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/TSqO4QOQSJc/sI3YwOBRr50J
 
As @David T said, if there were no 22nd amendment, Ike would be more likely to run in '60 than in '64 as he would be younger and in better health (even though his health wasn't good in '60 either). Plus, I would add that 60 was much more favorable to the GOP than '64 was. Johnson would've beaten any Republican that the GOP nominated that year.
 
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