Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rose Michigan's erect and greying Arthur Vandenberg, the Senate's other San Francisco delegate. Arthur Vandenberg is an accomplished and resounding orator. His usual custom is to pile his desk high with green-bound copies of the Congressional Record, lay his carefully prepared manuscript on top, thus leaving his arms free for gestures. Sometimes he has a small lectern brought in. But this time Senator Vandenberg used neither lectern nor notes...
This gave an inkling of the kind of administration President Truman will conduct. Administration leaders were present, also such Republicans as Senators Vandenberg, Austin and White, House Minority Leader Joe Martin, and such longtime Roosevelt opponents as Montana's Burton Wheeler and Wisconsin's Bob La Follette...
...friends in Congress, President Truman said humbly and simply that he just wanted to assure them in person of his intense desire for cooperation. Temporarily, at least, the days of Congressional-Executive fights are gone. To Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg, delegates to the San Francisco conference, Harry Truman said: "I expect you men to do a good job. I'm depending on you for that." (Same day it was announced that President Truman would not go to San Francisco, but would stay on the job in Washington...
...First Fruits. Truman told Stettinius and the Senate delegates, Connally and Vandenberg, to run their show-and run it well- at the San Francisco conference. Characteristically and instinctively, he decided that he had better stay away. Too much of U.S. diplomacy was buried with Mr. Roosevelt. Too much was yet to be absorbed, weighed, reappraised in conversations with Byrnes and Stettinius...
...three old-time aviators are four-star generals, it was different. Last week an Army promotion list raised three aviators to three-star rank, making a total of ten Army airmen with the rank of lieutenant general. The three new ones: tall, handsome, 46-year-old Hoyt S. Vandenberg, boss of the Ninth Air Force on the Continent, and nephew of Michigan's Senator; bald-headed John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 53, boss of the Twelfth Air Force in Italy (and no kin to the late, famed G.O.P. Speaker); and articulate, blue-eyed, fast-talking Harold Lee ("Bombardment") George...