Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political Bull's-Eye. The exhausted, sweating convention delegates had known and got almost exactly what they wanted. The real battle was never over issues. The Republican Party from the outset wanted someone like Arthur Vandenberg or Harold Stassen or Tom Dewey-all men who believed that the U.S. must accept its leadership in the world. The nomination of Tom Dewey conclusively routed the corporal's guard of Republican isolationists. They had rallied behind Robert Taft. even though he himself said that "isolationism" was a dead issue...
...skill, and admired him for his ability to command the loyalty of top-notch aides, a variety of Republicans felt he was not the kind of man they could cotton to. Old Guardists could love John Bricker, young folks could idealize Harold Stassen. others could be devoted to Statesman Vandenberg. Dewey, it was variously said, was too mechanically precise to be liked, too watchfully unbending to be confided in, too coldly ambitious to be loved. Few if any Republicans doubted that Dewey's administration could be counted on to get things done with competence and tidy dispatch. It would...
Governor Dwight Green was going to deliver a wad of Illinois' 56 votes to Dewey in return for the vice-presidency. Governor Alfred Driscoll, who was originally for Vandenberg, was going to deliver himself and at least a part of New Jersey to Dewey for the same reward. Congressman Charlie Halleck was going to deliver Indiana for the same reason. The effect of the stories was always the same. Delegates were assailed with doubts about their candidates and growing panicky over their own political hides. Were they missing a bandwagon? Would they go unrewarded when the patronage was dealt...
...closing days made one fact clear. The Republican Party-like the Democratic-is composed of two factions: responsible progressives and conservative standpatters who hanker for "normalcy." The progressives, led by Senators Vandenberg and Taft, won. But not without forcing such House conservatives as penny-pinching John Taber, Michigan's Jesse Wolcott and Rules Committee Chairman Leo Allen to eat crow...
...Just before the payoff in Philadelphia, some brave experts made their final prophecies. Of 815 newspaper editors polled by the U.S. News, 417 expected Senator Arthur Vandenberg to get the nomination, 271 hoped he would. Jim Farley predicted "a deadlock between Dewey and Taft. If they get together, one of them will be the nominee. If they don't, you'll see Vandenberg in there...