Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord, Keep Us Quiet." Arthur H. Vandenberg once remarked that "I never know whether Dr. Marshall is praying for me or at me." Senators, who have their moments of ringing and hollow oratory, came to find Peter Marshall's prayers plain and pertinent. Once he prayed: "When we do not know what to say, keep us quiet." Another time he said: "Save us from the sin of worrying, lest stomach ulcers be the badge of our lack of faith...
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...
Last week the man who would carry much of the "primary responsibility" was sworn in. Vandenberg was there, and so was Acheson's omnipresent old Harvard professor and busybody friend, Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter of the U.S. Supreme Court, with whom he walks to work each day (see cut). Acheson's text for the day, taken from the First Book of Kings: "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth...