Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Senate President pro tempore Arthur Vandenberg, who had made careful notes, asked the Senate for 30 minutes of its time. He strode down from the dais and began to speak...
...Bayonets. Ohio's Senator Taft, Lilienthal's most potent opponent, had moved to the side of the chamber, away from Senator Vandenberg; New Hampshire's Styles Bridges riffled through a newspaper. Vandenberg continued with a blast at Senators and people outside the Senate who want to return the whole problem of atomic energy to military control: "Mr. President, if we found out one thing truer than another, it is that in peacetime we cannot drive science into its laboratories with bayonets...
...Enthusiasm. No one interrupted Vandenberg during his speech; at its conclusion the gallery was in a forbidden uproar of handclapping, and Senators from both sides of the aisle were wringing Vandenberg's hand. Rarely in history has a speech changed votes; but most Senators agreed that this was one such historic occasion...
After his speech, even Vandenberg seemed anxious to set himself straight on that point. Said he to a friend: "If anybody had told me a year ago that I would be making an all-out effort in behalf of David Lilienthal, I would have thought him crazy. But it was a political lynching that was going...
...This week Senator Vandenberg proposed that the U.S. agree to end its aid to Greece and Turkey if requested to by a majority of the Security Council or the General Assembly...