My Daddy used to tell me that Ike didn't have the sense to pour p*ss out of a boot with the arrow stamped on the heel. Pa was a World War II vet who knew Ike's reputation. The men loved and respected Patton, MacArthur, Bradley and others. They merely tolerated Eisenhower.
Don't forget that he was the pick of the Dewey/RINO wing of the party in 1952 to make sure Robert Taft, the leading conservative voice at the time, wasn't nominated.