Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patient Van. Next day, on the Senate floor, wild and woolly debate broke forth. In it, the leadership of Arthur Vandenberg, whose Foreign Relations Committee had reported out a bill giving the Administration the full sum it asked for, was sorely tested by his fellow Republicans. Patiently, Vandenberg accepted one carping amendment after another-e.g., Idaho's Glen Taylor insisted on having it down in black & white that aid funds should not be used to buy arms...
...Arthur Vandenberg was furious. "I know of no advantage," he snapped, "in throwing a 15-foot rope to a man who is drowning 20 feet from the shore...
...session was just three days old when Senator Vandenberg's committee reported out the bill authorizing interim aid up to $597 million-exactly what the Administration had asked...
This week, Arthur Vandenberg stepped down from his seat as the Senate's presiding officer to open floor debate on the bill. In a full-dress speech as the Republican Party's chief spokesman on foreign policy, he urged its swift passage out of a "self interest which knows ... we cannot indefinitely prosper in a broken world." Swift passage was almost certain. On this program, there was little disagreement...
...should like to nominate Senator Vandenberg. ... He stands so much taller than his colleagues in the Senate as an exponent of good statesmanship and political honesty...