Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was one man in Washington who heard this warning siren loud & clear, but heard it as just one more note in an alarm from U.S. airmen all over the globe. From the reports on his broad mahogany desk in the Pentagon, General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff, could see an air-power crisis closing on the U.S. at jet speed, while the U.S. was buzzing along in a B-29 frame of mind. "We are tempted to retreat from one fading hope to another," said Vandenberg two years ago, "without subjecting ourself to the discipline...
...Pentagon's first impulse was to throw the book at them. "A tempest in a teapot," snorted Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. But as the proportions of the trouble became apparent last week, Vandenberg flew out to Randolph for a first-hand checkup, ordered court martial proceedings dropped in the cases of two flyers...
...years Michigan's delegation went to the Republican National Convention pledged to the same man: a favorite son, the late Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. This year National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield and State Chairman Owen J. ("Pat") Cleary decided to work for a unified, uninstructed delegation. They talked to every one of the 83 county delegations to the state convention. Their argument: uncommitted, Michigan would be in a better position to make deals at Chicago...
Then both sides began to make claims. Ike Man Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr. said this was Ike's "greatest victory to date" because 70% of the 46 delegates were for him. Taft Chairman Charles H. King said more than 28 of the delegates would be for Taft when they got to Chicago. Most of the delegates refused to talk...
Finally, "most of our foreign difficulties" are not "ever" In Europe, In spite of the "Vandenberg Policy" (so named because it was Secretary of State Marshall who first outlined it), and to equate the problems facing China with these facing Western Europe, or to equate their relative Importance to the United States, requires the sublimes political naivete. Unfortunately, the strength of the Chinese Nationalists in Washington was not undermined by their weakness in China until this country had been supporting a doomed regime for far too many years...