Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State James Brynes; on Dec. 7: Navy Secretary (later Defense Secretary) James Forrestal, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden; on Feb. 20, 1946: the President's Chief of Staff, Fleet Admiral William Leahy; on Feb. 26: War Department G-2 (later Chief of Air Staff) Lieut. General Hoyt Vandenberg; on March 5: Treasury Secretary (later U.S. Chief Justice) Fred Vinson; on March 15: the chief State Department security officer. Fred Lyon. Brownell also produced a note from the FBI, which accompanied Tom Clark's copy of the second report on White. Said the note: "... I have taken...
Close Ranks. Since he is staying on in Washington as Radford's NATO assistant, Collins (who is not called "Lightning Joe" for nothing) reacted fast. He learned that the spacious quarters at Fort Myer, which Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg had occupied,* were still vacant, and that Van's successor as Air Chief, General Nate Twining, had no plans to move into them. Collins called Ridgway and suggested, with the fervor of a real-estate agent, that the Vandenberg house, with its panoramic view of the city, might be just the thing for him. But Ridgway...
...went along with Arthur Vanden-berg's leadership in the Republicans' postwar policy in foreign affairs, Van's so-called "unpartisanship." But Taft had misgivings, which Vandenberg also began to entertain before the end of his career. When the Michigan Senator died of cancer in 1951, Taft began to express himself with vigor on foreign affairs, attacking what he saw as defects and ambiguities in the NATO pact, challenging both the President's right and wisdom in committing large numbers of U.S. troops to Europe, fixing the blame for the Korean attack on the Administration...
...last official acts, retiring Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg handed a pilot's wings to his son, Lieut. Hoyt S. Vandenberg Jr. He also told graduates at Williams Air Force Base, Ariz., that "the greatest fraternity on the face of the earth are the people who wear wings . . . You are not just jet jockeys . . . Take up the broader duty of understanding and preaching the role of air power . . . The people who won't face the truth . . . must be told repeatedly, earnestly, logically that air power will save the world from destruction...
Cool Criticism. Talbott was followed in the witness chair by outgoing Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg, the man principally responsible for the rise of air power to predominance in U.S. strategic planning. Vandenberg spent the better part of three days ticking off criticisms of the Wilson budget in cool, unemotional tones...