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...book-lined study of a Georgetown home, two men who frankly dislike each other sat down for a frank conversation. The host was Secretary of State Dean Acheson. His guest was tart-tongued Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, the Senior Republican Senator after the ailing Arthur Vandenberg, and the man who had vowed to "get Acheson...
...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...
Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft had been an ideal Republican leader in the 80th Congress when his sardonic criticism of all that was weakest in the Fair Deal, at home & abroad, was a good counterbalance to Vandenberg's high courage and decisive leadership in foreign relations. For a time, Republicanism had been a coalition of vision, realism and prudence...
...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...