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...then Vandenberg was a sick man, racked by intermittent headaches. In July 1949, he was to make the last important speech of his career. He appealed in the Senate for support of the North Atlantic
Treaty. It was the reaffirmation, once more, of Arthur Vandenberg's belief in the nation's new role in the world. "Once upon a time we were a comfortable, isolated land," he said. "Now we are unavoidably the leader and the reliance of free men throughout this free world. We cannot escape from our prestige nor from its hazard." Vandenberg prayed that the world would not misinterpret U.S. motives. The U.S., he said, only wanted peace-but it must be "peace with righteousness...
Last January his doctor reported that Vandenberg had rallied, could expect soon to return to Capitol Hill. But then he suffered another relapse. He was confined to his bedroom in the old family homestead in Grand Rapids, rarely knowing a conscious hour without pain, growing weaker day by day. There, last week, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, at 67, found his own peace with righteousness...
...couple of important callers. His guests and good friends: Walter Reuther, president of the politically potent C.I.O. United Auto Workers, and Gus Scholle, president of Michigan's C.I.O. Council. They had gathered to choose a Democrat to send to the U.S. Senate, to replace the late Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican. The union boys wanted one of their own men-an ex-union functionary named George Edwards, who ran in 1949 for mayor of Detroit and lost. Williams, already worried because many Michiganders regard him as too beholden to labor, balked. Finally Reuther and Scholle gave in, conceded that Soapy...
...Democrats and 46 Republicans. The increase gives them the right to bump one Republican off a major committee. Possible choice: Wisconsin's noisy Joe McCarthy off the Appropriations Committee, where he can make trouble on State Department requests for money. Probable Republican choice to succeed Vandenberg on the powerful Foreign Relations Committee: Owen Brewster of Maine, no isolationist but an outspoken enemy of the Administration and of Secretary of State Dean Acheson...