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...only a few years ago, in fact, that the Republicans made Rule 22 even more vicious. When the late Arthur Vandenberg was president pro tem of the Senate, an occasion arose when it seemed possible that cloture could be invoked, according to the then prevalent interpretation that two-thirds of the Senators could invoke it. Vandenberg, who was enjoying quite a reputation as a liberal in those post-war days, decided that the rule required the votes of two-thirds of the whole Senate...
...important Americans made important contributions to their fellow citizens' understanding of the world. The late Senator Arthur Vandenberg's Private Papers described the growth of a good mind from narrow isolationism to a sharp sense of world responsibility. In Journey to the Far Pacific, Governor Tom Dewey brought back a comprehensive and surprisingly readable account of Asia's problems...
...Secretary to the President: Arthur Vandenberg Jr., 45, bachelor son of the late Senator from Michigan. First head of the Citizens for Eisenhower and a top Ike aide throughout the campaign, his main job will be to keep Ike's daily engagement book...
...getting contributions that other Republican leaders came to Michigan to find out how he did it. (His system: divide the state into districts, ask each donor for only one contribution and budget political expenses.) Prime mover in the campaign to win the Republican presidential nomination for Senator Arthur Vandenberg in 1948 ("I still feel that Vandenberg could have been nominated. All we needed was his active participation"), he repeatedly asserted his neutrality in the Taft-Eisenhower fight leading up to the 1952 Republican Convention. At Chicago, however, he swung 35 of Michigan's 46 votes to Ike and played...
...Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg, on a round-the-world inspection tour, touched down at a Korean airstrip, called for Marine Pfc. Nicholas Baldwin and handed him a big box of cookies. The general had met the marine's parents in Florence, Italy, and volunteered to play messenger. The marine's reaction: "I was plenty shook...