Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...echoed Jimmy Byrnes's dislike of "too tough" as an inaccurate description of the U.S. attitude. The bipartisan policy, he said, was "friendly firmness," and it was a policy of peace, not of war. Said Senator Vandenberg...
...finish, U.S. Economist Willard Thorp slumped down Luxembourg's red-carpeted stairway and crawled into an automobile. He groaned that he had a crick in his neck, cramps in his fingers, aches everywhere; that he wanted a haircut, shave, bath, sleep. As he left, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, sprucely pink, walked into the committee room. "Ah," said a reporter, "the day shift is coming...
...Hoover. 4. Vandenberg...
...Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg talked and there was no mistaking their indignation. Vandenberg, sick of trying to demonstrate national unity in foreign policy when the Administration was so disunited, was thoroughly fed up. Editorialized the Baltimore Sun: "It will be almost impossible to repair [the Wallace-Truman blunder] unless these men show almost superhuman forbearance and stand by the stricken ship of nonpartisan policy." Connally and Vandenberg stood...
Their exact words are not known, but it is known that the Washington machine tried to explain Mr. Truman's actions. The Paris machine asked some pointed questions, and said at length that the U.S. delegation (Byrnes, Vandenberg and Tom Connally) would have to quit Paris and return to Washington unless the President's foreign policy were clarified. The Washington machine thanked the Paris machine for a "cooperative" attitude. Did the Paris machine demand Wallace's head? Not at all. In the silence of the White House and the Paris Embassy the machines signed...