Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the angriest man in Washington was Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who would now have to undertake the job of repairing the House blunder. He immediately asked to make his views known before the Senate Appropriations Committee this week. There was little doubt that he would be able to restore most of the cuts, and with them the damage to Republican prestige...
...Republican Convention. There were many imponderables. For one thing, no trainer or stable manager had complete confidence that his entry could be brought home in front with the needed 548 delegates (a simple majority of the 1,094 total). For another thing, while it looked like a Dewey-Vandenberg horse race on form, one of the entries was probably not going to start running until about the three-quarters pole. But handicappers agreed, almost to a man, on the way the race would probably be run. The consensus...
First Ballot. Dewey will break in front, with 300-plus delegates; Taft next with more than 200; Stassen close up with about 150; Vandenberg well back in the field of favorite sons, carrying Michigan's 41 and perhaps a few more...
...that is precisely what GOP House leaders have achieved, pressed into irresponsibility by their own backward outlook and, more significantly, by the formal contest for control of their Party which looms so close at hand. If the dominant Martin-Taber-Halleck Knutson cabal successfully "guts," to use Senator Vandenberg's expression of yesterday, the ERP endeavor, it will amount to national tragedy. If this is heaped upon the deed of a mangled reciprocal trade agreements program and if it is followed by the further steps which such a high-riding reactionary leadership would surely attempt, the earthquake tremor of fear...
...being out in front also brought embarrassing moments. A growing number of Republicans, joined by several newspaper columnists, were suggesting that the strongest Republican ticket would be Arthur Vandenberg for President and Tom Dewey for Vice President. Columnist Walter Lippmann wrote that Dewey is "entirely competent to be President," but "a man who refused the Vice Presidency under these circumstances would write himself down as too ambitious, as lacking in humility and a sense of duty and, therefore, as not really qualified to be President...