Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vandenberg spoke out of the deep good humor of a man without political worries. Before the speech, he had announced that he was retiring from public life in 1952. Said Vandenberg: "By then, I will have been in the Senate for 25 years, and I will be 68 years old. This is my last...
High Center. Where did the Republican Party stand? The response to Tom Dewey indicated that the question was far from settled. Two days later in Detroit, Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg tried his hand...
...Vandenberg spoke with wit and without rancor. He paid good-natured tribute to Harry Truman as "the most famous one-man tornado in the history of political hurricanes," twitted him for spending "six soap-box months telling the American people how the Republicans had ruined them," then opening his message to Congress with: ". . . the State of the Union is good...
...Vandenberg wanted the G.O.P. to take "the high center road." Said he: "I want the Republican Party to be 'conservative' enough to save every time-tried fundamental upon which the unique and precious character of Americanism depends ... I want the Republican Party to be liberal enough to march with the times, to dare new answers to new problems, and to use the power and strength and initiative of government to help citizens to help themselves when they confront problems beyond their resources and control." Both Vandenberg's and Dewey's speeches were attempts...
...also given him the answer. After six months of negotiations, the Atlantic pact powers had agreed that an attack upon one nation was to be regarded as an attack upon all. Each nation was required to take "military or other action" to help the nation attacked. Senators Connally and Vandenberg balked, insisting that the word "military" be cut out, making the clause read that the parties would take "action...