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...long past midnight. In his Wardman Park Hotel apartment, Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan sat sunk in an easy chair with a biography of George Washington in his lap. Piled beside him were other biographies: lives of Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt. The Senator's broad dome nodded drowsily. His cigar...
...horses, each flaunting a khaki banner blazoned with four silver stars. The rear was brought up by a swarm of lovable little Mugwumps, ringing cowbells and whirling clackers. The galleries were a mass of waving U.S. flags, a dozen bands were playing, and now, even above the roar, Senator Vandenberg could plainly make out the tune. It was: There's Something about a Soldier...
Last week Senator Vandenberg's close friend, Washington Correspondent Jay Hayden of the Detroit News, revealed that a serious version of this dream is now very much on the Senator's mind. Launching a carefully drafted trial balloon in his column, Hayden reported that an "active movement" to make General Douglas MacArthur the Republican Presidential nominee in 1944 is now under way, that its unofficial headquarters is Vandenberg's office. His desk is littered with MacArthur biographies, his favorite being Bob Considine's MacArthur the Magnificent. Politicos by the score come to discuss the General...
...organization at this time, only 24 definitely committing themselves in favor of the proposal. The Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution, substantially the same as the above measure, faces an additional obstacle in the formidable machinations of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which includes Champ Clark, Hiram Johnson, Capper, LaFollette, Vandenberg, Nye and Shipstead on its roster...
Dewey and Vandenberg, Taft and Bricker, old-line Republicans . . . Dewey young, but only physically. ... All wanting to go back to '29. Not one of them realizing what even the most stupid man in the street knows: that these are new times, enlightened times, progressive times. Not one of them with even a visible shred of social consciousness...