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...politics. He had labored valiantly to present a set of policies that would impress Congress and the nation without depressing the President, to whom his report was of necessity addressed. But he forgot the one great issue that transcends all others in 1944 Washington, D.C. Implacably Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg blurted it out at week's end: "It would be very tragic if we had to detour into that sort of fundamental conflict between the Legislature and the Executive. But I see no insuperable conflict between them − unless the Fourth-Term dynasty has ideas...
Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan last week told Collier's readers "Why I Am for MacArthur." He wrote: MacArthur "is granite in the face of duty . . . a composite of all our necessities. . . . [Mr. Roosevelt] intends to run primarily as our commander in chief. . . . Should we not offer the people a better commander in chief...
...just going to let nature take its course," said Senator Arthur Vandenberg, defining his strategy in building up General Douglas MacArthur for President. "When things are going your way, you don't try to change them...
...Senator Vandenberg, chief of staff of the MacA.f.P. guerrillas, reiterated that "until he [MacArthur] says he won't, I assume that he will...
...strategists of the MacA.f.P. drive preferred to propose the nomination on the basis of the General's military magic rather than on his undisclosed political views. Senator Vandenberg felt that no ordinary campaign would fit the occasion, but that only a dynamic groundswell could convince the Republican convention to nominate his candidate...