Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's Georgetown University Hospital last week, Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg went under the surgeon's knife for the third time in six months. He had been in hospitals seven times in the past nine weeks, and most of the time he had been in extreme pain, unable to sit up for more than a few hours. Last week, in a four-hour operation, a nonmalignant tumor in and around his spine was removed and with it, friends hoped, the real reason for his failure to recuperate from his operation last fall. But the 66-year...
...Republican Party would sorely miss such a spokesman; the remaining voices in Congress-or at least the loudest of them-fell too readily these days into mere nagging. Without Vandenberg, the party's ideas on foreign policy had often fallen to a low level, sometimes even to the low level of McCarthyism: irresponsible, theatrical, partisan. (At Princeton University last week, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey warned: "Before any Republican rejoices at the possible shipwreck of the foreign policy of the Democratic Administration, he should remember that we are all in the same boat...
...Republican with the longest Senate tenure, in the absence of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Bridges was called to the White House Tuesday for the first of a series of conferences to keep Republican leaders "informed of the course of foreign affairs...
Dulles' name had been proposed for the job by Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg, the Republicans' chief architect of bipartisanship in foreign policy, and his selection was hailed by Vandenberg's hardy little group of Republicans in the Senate. But there were other Republicans who were not so happy at the idea. Bipartisanship, snapped Ohio's Robert Taft, "is not accomplished by the appointment of an individual Republican . . . Bipartisanship is being used by Mr. Truman as a slogan to condemn any Republican who disagrees with Mr. Truman's unilateral foreign policy, secretly initiated...
...same role that Republican John Foster Dulles played in previous international conferences. An able and vigorous supporter of bipartisan foreign policy when he was in the Senate (he was beaten in 1948), 48-year-old, Yale-trained John Cooper had the backing of Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg, who had approved his appointment...