Word: vandenbergers
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There, Republicans were divided and moved more cautiously. Senators Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg swung their weight behind Finance Chairman Eugene Milliken's proposal for a $4.5 billion cut. Their most potent argument: the effect of a larger cut on U.S. military strength (see The Nation). President pro tem Vandenberg took the floor to warn his colleagues: "Any lapse in our purpose or resources . . . will be an open invitation to Soviet Russia to fill the vacuum. . . . We dare not present to the world a picture of Uncle Sam with a chip on each shoulder and both arms...
From the ranks of Taft's own Republican Party two strong voices spoke. One was that of Senate President "pro tem Arthur Vandenberg. "Being on the jury," he refused to state his own position, but he implied it clearly. It was Vandenberg who read into the record the Compton warning. When Senator McKellar insisted that Communism in the TVA was a responsibility of Lilienthal's, Vandenberg replied acidly: "Former Senator La Follette wrote an article in which he said there were Communists working for the Senate. I did not see any Senators assuming responsibility...
...conflict had congealed. Iowa's Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, chairman of the investigating committee, set a deadline on new witnesses for this midweek. The outcome of the Lilienthal nomination would be decided on the floor of the Senate by Republicans who would follow either Bob Taft or Arthur Vandenberg. President Truman was confident that they would vote to confirm. Lilienthal supporters thought that, if they had Vandenberg's open support, they would win by a dozen votes...
...Hoover. 4. Vandenberg...
...importance was underscored by the fact that all the conferees were pledged to secrecy. Nine Congressmen, including the Republican chiefs of the Foreign and Appropriations Committees, were consulted. No one would go beyond an announcement of Chairman Vandenberg (R-Mich) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...