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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...
...which every United Nation's capital tries to outdo the other in bitter backtalk about the infirmities of each." I earnestly suggest a moratorium by all concerned until we can sit down together in mutual good faith and try to discover "what's what." A. H. VANDENBERG United States Senate Washington...
...Another ticklish problem was the San Francisco agenda. Would the conference merely be asked to swallow Dumbarton Oaks whole, without any change? Moscow's War and the Working Class, which often reflects official opinion, thought so. Yet among the U.S. delegation were at least two-Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Commander Harold Stassen-determined to amend Dumbarton Oaks. Ed Stettinius finally made the Administration line clear: to defend and preserve the basic character of Dumbarton Oaks, but to put proffered amendments before the entire conference...
...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...