[fieldmarshaldj]

"The GOP establishment back then put him forward because they didn’t want William Howard Robert Taft"

Fixed it for you.

[Cicero]

I should have looked it up. I was going from memory, when I was young, and there was a lot of talk about both Tafts.

Anyway, the Establishment thought that Taft was too conservative to win, but figured that Eisenhower, as a five-star war hero, would be a shoe-in.