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Response. All through Taft's speech Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg had sat slouched in his chair, doodling with a pencil. Now he sprang to his feet, the color rising in his face. "I should think," he said, "[that] the Senator from Ohio would join me among the very first. ... If he found that those with whom we were cooperating were doing what we had contemplated and hoped for ... he would be the first to say it was a golden opportunity to continue this program...
...Days. As Taft sat down, Vandenberg sensed that the time was ripe for a showdown. By a vote of 56 to 31, the Senate rejected Taft's amendment to reduce...
Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg had displayed a suitable reluctance. He had insisted that he did not want his name entered in Nebraska's presidential primary next month. But Raymond A. McConnell Jr., chairman of a bipartisan group which thought the public should have a chance to express itself on all G.O.P. possibilities, had been stubborn...
Last week Vandenberg sent off a last-minute protest. McConnell fired back a flat question: "If you were nominated by the Republican convention, would you accept?" Replied Vandenberg: "I decline to speculate...
McConnell promptly filed Vandenberg's name, along with those of Dewey, Taft, Stassen, MacArthur, Warren and Speaker Joe Martin. "I suppose this makes you mad as the devil," said a reporter. "Period," said Vandenberg, grinning broadly...