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...Herald Tribune was pointing at Senator Taft. Colorado's Eugene Millikin, Taft's right-hand man, had indicated that he would support Lilienthal. Co-Leader Arthur Vandenberg gave Lilienthal lukewarm support; he did not want to jeopardize Republican unity. Upon Taft rested the outcome. Taft's word would solidify G.O.P. opposition or break it. He could cast his one vote and let it go at that; or he could demand a party vote. In that case, said one Republican Senator who privately admitted that he would vote to confirm, "a lot of us who would be independent...
...were not necessarily the majority, or even the responsible voices of the Senate. There were Republicans who did not want "the blood of another economic war on their hands." They stood somewhere in the middle of the struggle, with Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Colorado's Eugene Millikin, the influential chairmen, respectively, of the Foreign Affairs and the Finance Committees...
Finance Committee under Colorado's Eugene Millikin, his able right hand. No other Senator had so many major jobs. No other Senator had his capacity for work, either, or his efficiency...
...that would have put some teeth back in. The Senate scrambled Party lines, produced curious alliances and strange turnabouts. At one point Alben Barkley remarked: "To see the Senator from Florida [Pepper] coming to the rescue of the American businessman and the Senator from Colorado [conservative Republican Eugene Donald Millikin] coming to the rescue of the American workingman is something wonderful to behold...
Some were shocked; others were troubled. Senator Robert Taft, who has long demanded revision of labor laws, turned thumbs down on the President's "expedients." Republican Senator Eugene Millikin thought it unconstitutional. Oregon's Wayne Morse, incensed because the bill had been short-circuited around the Education and Labor Committee, resigned from the committee. Action was postponed. But the Senate, jolted by Harry Truman's explosive move, really got down to business on the Case bill...