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Acheson was confirmed, 83 to 6. But Vandenberg's speech reflected a change in the bipartisan foreign policy wrought by the election. Before the election, a Republican Congress and a Democratic Administration had shared the responsibility for foreign policy. Now that the Democrats had their own majority, the Republicans, as one of their Senate leaders put it, had only a "secondary responsibility...
Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg rose in the Senate last week to plead for the confirmation of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State. What made it news was not his support of Acheson, for the Republican champion of the bipartisan foreign policy had often carried the ball for the Democrats, but the qualification he attached to his support. Said Vandenberg...
...major programs, such as the North Atlantic alliance and additional Marshall Plan funds, for which Vandenberg had led the fight, he could again be expected to help out. But Harry Truman could not expect Vandenberg to support any "impromptu and unpredictable" foreign policy the President might embark...
Would Congress ratify the pact? The State Department was hoping that Congress still felt as it did last June, when by a 64-to-4 vote it passed the Vandenberg resolution, encouraging the President to negotiate with other Northern Atlantic nations. The pact would certainly preserve the right of Congress to declare...
...last week, Humphrey told Assistant Simms: "Be sure to brief me on protocol. I'm liable to start sliding down the bannisters." In the Senate chamber, he spotted his family sitting in the gallery, just to the right of the clock. When it came time for Senator Arthur Vandenberg to swear in Humphrey, 14th in line, Humphrey's father leaned forward, dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief. "He's going to be a great Senator," the father said afterward. "Maybe he's going to be something else...