Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natural trouble of a Democrat who took over a Republican's expiring term in a Republican state. Moody has been cruising along the byways to get acquainted, standing before audiences for hours answering questions. The greatest threat to him is that the Republicans may get a candidate named Vandenberg. One possibility is Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., son of the man whose death last year sent Moody to the Senate. A less likely possibility: General Hoyt Vandenberg, 53, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force and nephew of the late Senator. The general's term is expiring...
...Naval Operations Admiral William Fechteler spelled out publicly just how his ships & men could act: "If the truce negotiations break down, the Navy is prepared to broaden the scope of its operations . . . We have the capability of blockading the China coast." The Air Force's General Hoyt Vandenberg was equally ready for strategic attacks on the China mainland...
...Generals Omar Bradley, Joe Collins and Hoyt Vandenberg and their British opposites listened sympathetically, but they were not empowered to give France the specific military promise it wanted. Two days later however, in a speech in New York, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden beamed a crucial warning to the Communists. "It should be understood," he said, "that the intervention by force by Chinese Communists in Southeast Asia-even if they were called vol- unteers-would create a situation no less menacing than that which the United Nations met and faced in Korea. In any such event the United Nations should...
Protégé. In the Senate, 34-year-old Cabot Lodge was "the boy wonder." Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg took him under his wing (Vandenberg had known his grandfather, and admired the elder Lodge's biography of Alexander Hamilton as the best, up to the time Vandenberg wrote his own). Like Vandenberg, Lodge was labeled an isolationist, but he favored military preparedness, and called for conscription before President Roosevelt did. Domestically, his record was liberal, with a shrewd eye on his constituents. He was one of two Republicans to vote for the Wages and Hours Bill...
...recent years, Lodge has been recognized as one of the ablest men in the Senate. In two important areas of policy -military affairs and foreign affairs-his grasp is especially firm. When Vandenberg fell ill and retired from active leadership, most observers thought the mantle of Republican leadership in foreign policy would fall on Cabot Lodge. But somehow, the mantle never fitted...