Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Ike, wrote his friend Roy Roberts in the Kansas City Star, feels that the G.O.P. must make known by its platform, but more especially by its candidate, its intention to stand firm for the bipartisan foreign policy. The candidate Eisenhower would prefer: Vandenberg. Those whom he would count safe: Dewey, Stassen, Warren. Nominees whom Eisenhower would not accept: Taft, Bricker, Joe Martin. If the G.O.P. disappointed Ike, what would he do? Wrote Roberts: "His friends believe that he will take a dramatic way to warn the country. . . How far he'll go, no one knows...
...plank was full of knots. It endorsed reciprocal trade agreements, but added a phrase which left the door open for high tariffs and a generally protectionist policy. Otherwise, the foreign policy section followed the precepts of Senator Vandenberg...
...foreign policy its record was distinguished: its decisions marked the end of 152 years of U.S. peacetime isolation. Though the Administration, using its constitutional prerogative, initiated policy, the Both Congress, led by Senator Arthur Vandenberg, forged the imposing tools by which the bipartisan foreign policy was put into effect...
...Approved and sent to conference the Vandenberg-Millikin compromise on reciprocal trade, which removed the House-approved congressional veto on tariff agreements. ¶ Tabled oleo tax repeal...
...West Point, to Hoyt Jr., a rock-jawed plebe, went a fountain pen and a rock-solid handshake from Air Force General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, '23, who has come a long way since then but still looks a little like a plebe with his hair slicked down...