President Eisenhower (D) 1948-1956

Had Robert Taft been the Republican nominee in 1948, Dwight D Eisenhower likely would have run to be the 1948 Democratic candidate as he did not want an isolationist being president of the United States.

What if Eisenhower had been a Democratic President from 1948-1956?
 
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The candidate you are thinking of is Robert A. Taft, Senator from Ohio and eldest son of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States, which could be candidate for 1948, if Thomas Dewey is unable to.

Dwight D. Eisenhower as 16th Chief of Staff of the Army, was in 1945 told by Harry S. Truman during the Potsdam Conference that if Eisenhower desired, the president would help the general win the 1948 election, and in 1947 he offered to run as Eisenhower's running mate on the Democratic ticket if MacArthur won the Republican nomination.

So its not ASB and a Eisenhower/Truman ticket, could hold 1948, while an alternative running mate, such as in 1952, could be interesting, such as Senator Hubert Humphrey from Minnesota, Senator Estes Kefauver from Tennessee or Senator Robert S. Kerr from Oklahoma.
 
President: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vice-President: Harry S. Truman (1949-1953) Estes KeFauver (1953-1957)

Attorney General: Scott W. Lucas (1949-1957)
Secretary of the Interior: James "Jimmy" Roosevelt II (1949-1957)
Secretary of Commerce: Nelson Rockefeller (1949-1957)
Secretary of Labor: Martin Patrick Durkin (1949-1957)

Following the death of Frank Murphy, July 19, 1949, he nominated Francis Biddle, 58th United States Attorney General (August 26, 1941 – June 26, 1945)

Following the death of Chief Justice, Fred M. Vinson, on September 8, 1953, Eisenhower appoints Harry S. Truman.
 
The candidate you are thinking of is Robert A. Taft, Senator from Ohio and eldest son of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States, which could be candidate for 1948, if Thomas Dewey is unable to.

Dwight D. Eisenhower as 16th Chief of Staff of the Army, was in 1945 told by Harry S. Truman during the Potsdam Conference that if Eisenhower desired, the president would help the general win the 1948 election, and in 1947 he offered to run as Eisenhower's running mate on the Democratic ticket if MacArthur won the Republican nomination.

So its not ASB and a Eisenhower/Truman ticket, could hold 1948, while an alternative running mate, such as in 1952, could be interesting, such as Senator Hubert Humphrey from Minnesota, Senator Estes Kefauver from Tennessee or Senator Robert S. Kerr from Oklahoma.

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Decades after 1948, Joseph Rauh was still unapologetic about his role in the ADA's "draft-Eisenhower" campaign:

RAUH: There was a lot of that, you know. And so all of this created the Eisenhower and/or Douglas movement, and I was part of that Eisenhower and/or Douglas movement. I am not the least bit sorry about it. I think, if Eisenhower had been elected President in 1948, he probably would have been a liberal President on the Democratic side. But he was a goddamn reactionary on the . . .

JOHNSON: He didn't have a record at that point, did he?

RAUH: Yes, the record that we were going on were his speeches, which were very internationalist in substance and tone. In fact, we used to say, "Well, it's all right with us, that the Chicago Tribune calls Ike 'FDR in uniform'." We said, "That's exactly what we're looking for."

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/rauh.htm

Just how Rauh concluded that internationalism necessarily made someone a liberal on domestic issues is not clear to me. Eisenhower himself wrote in Crusade in Europe "With some of Mr. Roosevelt's political acts I could never possibly agree. But I knew him solely in his capacity as leader of a nation at war -- and in that capacity he seemed to me to fulfill all that could possibly be expected of him." http://books.google.com/books?id=ikoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA150

But I'm not sure that even Taft's winning the GOP nomination in 1948 would be enough to get Ike to run as a Democrat. Taft had (reluctantly) supported aid to Greece and Turkey and had not been an outright opponent of the Marshall Plan (though he wanted to cut back on it) and many of the things that made Ike worry about him in the future (e.g., Taft's opposition to the North Atlantic Treaty) were not yet issues in 1948. The one man whose nomination on the GOP ticket I am pretty sure would induce Ike to be a candidate would be Douglas MacArthur...
 
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