Purdue University President Mitch Daniels to retire... (2024 aspirations??)

[mountaineer]

Purdue University President Mitch Daniels to retire at year’s end
By Jon Zimney -
June 10, 2022

The Purdue Board of Trustees has announced that University President Mitch Daniels will retire at the end of the year.

Daniels began his duties as President of Purdue University in 2013, at the end of his second term as Indiana Governor. ...

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Seth Mandel
@SethAMandel
IT'S HAPPENING
6:11 PM · Jun 10, 2022·

David McCune, MD, MPH
@davidemccune
Slogan:  Mitch Please
6:14 PM · Jun 10, 2022

Emmet
@Em_m3t
Oh yes, let's definitely cheer for someone who ran a woke university to be our conservative hero president
6:22 PM · Jun 10, 2022·

[mountaineer]

In 2024, he'd be 75. Back in 2018, a former member of Congress urged him to run in 2020.

Mitch Daniels should run for president
by Former Rep. George Nethercutt (R-Wash.), opinion contributor - 12/26/18 4:00 PM ET
The Hill

Even though the 2020 Presidential election is over a year away, possible opponents to Donald Trump seem to be lining up. One name that should be included is Republican Mitch Daniels, now Purdue University’s President and former two-term Governor of Indiana.

Daniels took his name out of the running against President Obama, citing family concerns at the time. Perhaps he could be persuaded that America needs him now. Although Mr. Trump would be a formidable candidate, so would Daniels appeal to women and independents, two groups that showed-up strongly in the 2018 Congressional elections.

No one likes to be politically vilified, but Mr. Trump may not be able to get away with the insults he hurled at opponents in 2016. He’s facing not only potential criminal proceedings, but possible impeachment charges from a Democratic caucus. While it’s doubtful the U.S. Senate would convict on any impeachment charges, if Mr. Trump faces defeat, perhaps he’ll resign first.  ...

Maybe an Indianan could tell us more, but he strikes me as just another Chamber of Commerce/Mitch McConnell Republican.   

[The_Reader_David]

Hmmm.... there have been former university presidents assume the office of POTUS before:  Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower.

Which would Daniels more resemble?

Actually, it's amusing that Ike was for a while president of Columbia University between serving as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and POTUS.  During a search for a new president for Columbia, someone asked who they should consider and was told, "Get Eisenhower", meaning not Ike, but his brother, Milton Eisenhower, who was, at the time president of Kansas State University.  He was misunderstood, and Ike got the job.

[mountaineer]

Hmmm.... there have been former university presidents assume the office of POTUS before

Ugh, and Wilson was one of the worst.

College or university president has been a between-gigs position for several politicians, even in my little state. John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV, after his stint as WV Attorney General, was president of a small Methodist college for two years until he ran for governor, and ultimately ended up in the U.S. Senate. Another governor, Cecil Underwood, did various jobs after his first term in office, including serving as president of another small college, until he 40 years later was elected governor again.

Donna Shalala, after a less than impressive career in the Clinton Administration, was president of the University of Miami for some 14 years, leaving to head up the Clinton Foundation.