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High Center. Where did the Republican Party stand? The response to Tom Dewey indicated that the question was far from settled. Two days later in Detroit, Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg tried his hand...
...Vandenberg spoke with wit and without rancor. He paid good-natured tribute to Harry Truman as "the most famous one-man tornado in the history of political hurricanes," twitted him for spending "six soap-box months telling the American people how the Republicans had ruined them," then opening his message to Congress with: ". . . the State of the Union is good...
...Vandenberg wanted the G.O.P. to take "the high center road." Said he: "I want the Republican Party to be 'conservative' enough to save every time-tried fundamental upon which the unique and precious character of Americanism depends ... I want the Republican Party to be liberal enough to march with the times, to dare new answers to new problems, and to use the power and strength and initiative of government to help citizens to help themselves when they confront problems beyond their resources and control." Both Vandenberg's and Dewey's speeches were attempts...
...Lord, Keep Us Quiet." Arthur H. Vandenberg once remarked that "I never know whether Dr. Marshall is praying for me or at me." Senators, who have their moments of ringing and hollow oratory, came to find Peter Marshall's prayers plain and pertinent. Once he prayed: "When we do not know what to say, keep us quiet." Another time he said: "Save us from the sin of worrying, lest stomach ulcers be the badge of our lack of faith...
Last week the man who would carry much of the "primary responsibility" was sworn in. Vandenberg was there, and so was Acheson's omnipresent old Harvard professor and busybody friend, Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter of the U.S. Supreme Court, with whom he walks to work each day (see cut). Acheson's text for the day, taken from the First Book of Kings: "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth...