Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Vandenberg continue his reading of lives of past military heroes [TIME, May 17]! All those who became Presidents ran for the office after...
...long past midnight. In his Wardman Park Hotel apartment, Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan sat sunk in an easy chair with a biography of George Washington in his lap. Piled beside him were other biographies: lives of Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt. The Senator's broad dome nodded drowsily. His cigar...
...horses, each flaunting a khaki banner blazoned with four silver stars. The rear was brought up by a swarm of lovable little Mugwumps, ringing cowbells and whirling clackers. The galleries were a mass of waving U.S. flags, a dozen bands were playing, and now, even above the roar, Senator Vandenberg could plainly make out the tune. It was: There's Something about a Soldier...
Last week Senator Vandenberg's close friend, Washington Correspondent Jay Hayden of the Detroit News, revealed that a serious version of this dream is now very much on the Senator's mind. Launching a carefully drafted trial balloon in his column, Hayden reported that an "active movement" to make General Douglas MacArthur the Republican Presidential nominee in 1944 is now under way, that its unofficial headquarters is Vandenberg's office. His desk is littered with MacArthur biographies, his favorite being Bob Considine's MacArthur the Magnificent. Politicos by the score come to discuss the General...
...Chief rather than for a President, and there are no credentials equal to Mac Arthur's upon that score." Clincher is the Washington-Jackson-Har-rison-Taylor-Grant-T. Roosevelt tradition of soldier heroes who have been swept to the White House on crests of military glory. Vandenberg is prudently holding his tongue in public "until the proper time...