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...Movie Queen Bebe Daniels (Bebe, Bebe, Bebe, Be Mine), whose father lived in Grand Rapids. Now he turned to sterner stuff. Alexander Hamilton had long been his hero; he wrote three books about him. (Lodge had also written a biography of Hamilton.) The books are largely forgotten, and Senator Vandenberg is glad they are. But the inscription in one is a characteristic example of how faithfully Vandenberg represented, as he still represents, the popular thought of the day. He wrote: "Nationalism-not internationalism-is the indispensable bulwark of American independence...
...March 1928 his chance at the Senate came. He was appointed to fill a vacancy and was elected the following autumn. In the traditionally Republican state of Michigan, Vandenberg has never had much trouble getting reelected, although in the New Deal landslide of 1934 he squeaked through largely because of a Democratic split. Except for California's ailing Hiram Johnson and Kansas' aging Arthur Capper, he is now the ranking Republican in the Senate...
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...