Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Foreign Ministers' communiqué showed that the successive stages had been kept, Republican Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan hit the roof. With ample senatorial backing, he stormed to the White House, got a Truman promise that no U.S. atomic secrets would be released until a full security system is in effect. He also got assurance from the State Department that the four stages were really meant to be simultaneous. If so, this passage in the Moscow communiqué was even more cryptically worded than other Big Three statements...
...Senate, which had heard all this before, calmly went about confirming Mrs. Roosevelt's appointment. Quickly they approved the rest of the first-string team the President wanted to send to London-former Secretary of State Ed Stettinius, Democratic Senator Tom Connally, Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes. But the debate had only begun. As the names of Harry Truman's five alternate delegates were read, Arkansas' liberal Democrat J. William Fulbright got up with a glitter...
Said Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg: "I am unable to agree that we should suddenly choose UNRRA, on the threshold of winter, as the vehicle for [freedom of the press...
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg had also grown taller. A year ago, Michigan's Governor Harry F. Kelly was set to run against him in next year's GOPrimary. But now that Big Van had become a foreign policy statesman of decision and note, the opposition to him at home had collapsed...
...survey, conducted for the Republican, a national party magazine, showed that the biggest recent gainers in party approval (aside from Vandenberg, who jumped 40.7 points since 1943, for his foreign-policy views) were Bricker, Captain Harold Stassen, U.S.N.R., Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Governor Earl Warren...