Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator in Action. As a Senator, Arthur Vandenberg has been a Republican independent. One of his heroes in the upper house was the late, great maverick, Bill Borah; when Borah died, Vandenberg moved into his office. He strung along with the New Deal on Social Security, SEC and price control; opposed it on TVA, the Supreme Court packing bill, and consumer subsidies. Some newsmen in the capital began to call him the "Yes and No Man." He is proud of a letter from Democrat Leo Crowley, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., acknowledging Vandenberg as the father of that...
...Vandenberg's heaviest guns were trained on the Administration in the 1939 Neutrality Bill fight. At that time he said in the Senate debate: "I do not think this is our war, and I think we should stay all the way out. . . ." And one month after the Nazis marched into Poland, he observed: "This so-called war is nothing but about 25 people and propaganda. Get them and you'll have the whole thing. They want our money...
...Arthur Vandenberg changed his mind, as the people were changing theirs. The change was perceptible even before Pearl Harbor: Vandenberg never had the Chinese Wall mentality of a Wheeler or a Nye or a Bennett Clark or a Ham Fish. The change became marked at the Republican conference at Mackinac, where Vandenberg, once he was sure that G.O.P. internationalists had no intention of selling the U.S. down the river, found that actually he was not far away from their views. The change was sped by the private conferences which Vandenberg, as a member of a Foreign Relations subcommittee, had with...
Senator at Home. Now that Senator Vandenberg has become a world figure, the Vandenbergs' social life in Washington has changed radically. They are rarely in their two-room apartment in the Wardman Park Hotel. Even in the reduced social season, invitations have come to them by the tens and twenties, and they have duly made the rounds of the embassies and the teas...
...night, when he is not going out, he and his wife go through nine newspapers (two New York, two Detroit, two Grand Rapids, three Washington), clip out all the stories about Senator Vandenberg, paste them in scrapbooks. When the books are completed, they are bound in green, shipped to Grand Rapids for deposit in a safe in the Vandenberg home. He intends to use them in writing his memoirs...