Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later that night, cool and resplendent in a crisp straw hat and double-breasted suit, big, grey Arthur Vandenberg ambled contentedly over to the Bellevue-Stratford to congratulate Tom Dewey...
...days-old allies, men who had thrown their weight behind the Dewey bandwagon when that weight counted most-New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll, Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, Massachusetts' Governor Robert F. Bradford, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and the Kansas City Star's Roy Roberts. Vandenberg had accepted Dewey's invitation...
...where rumors flickered through the delegates like wind in tall grass, the word had been that Indiana's Charlie Halleck was the choice. But if Halleck had been promised anything, it had been only a hunting license. In Room 808, the license was promptly torn up. Neither Arthur Vandenberg nor Dulles could accept Halleck's isolationist record as House Majority Leader. Other politicians looked in. Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert came to plead the case of Senator John Bricker. New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith (backed by Driscoll) urged the cause of Harold Stassen...
Before the convention, his political advisers had put Tom Dewey just behind Arthur Vandenberg in their rating of candidates hardest for Harry Truman to beat. With Earl Warren's nomination for Vice President, Democratic strategists gave up any remaining hope of carrying California...
Though many foreign observers had been rooting for Arthur Vandenberg because they knew where he stood, they conceded that Tom Dewey would not be too bad. Moscow, of course, stuck with damaging loyalty to Henry Wallace and denounced Dewey as a "prophet of imperialism." Le Parisien announced the governor's victory thus: "Tom Dewey is only one meter 56 centimeters tall, but his voice is the most radiophonic...