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Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg Jr. (June 30, 1907 – January 18, 1968) was a Republican government official from Michigan. He worked for many years on the staff of his father, Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884–1951), who served in the U.S. Senate from 1928 to 1951.
Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr. (1907–1968), the senator's son, worked for the senator for more than a decade. In 1952 President Eisenhower appointed him appointments secretary, but he took a leave of absence before Eisenhower was inaugurated.
Arthur H. Vandenberg was a U.S. Republican senator who was largely responsible for bipartisan congressional support of international cooperation and of President Harry S. Truman’s anticommunist foreign policy after World War II.
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In 1945, Arthur Vandenberg delivered a celebrated "speech heard round the world," announcing his conversion from isolationism to internationalism. In so doing, he became the embodiment of a bipartisan American approach to the cold war.
"The vital importance of 'saving China' cannot be exaggerated," wrote Senator Arthur Vandenberg, as civil war raged between Nationalist and Communist Chinese in October 1948. "But there are limits to our resources and. boundaries to our miracles."1 Vandenberg's despair was part of a signal postwar.
Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr. Dies; Led '52 Citizens for Eisenhower; Son of Late Michigan Senator Also Served Rockefeller and Henry Cabot Lodge. Share full article. Jan. 19, 1968. The New York...
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Senator Arthur Vandenberg (1884-1951) of Michigan delivered a celebrated "speech heard round the world" in the Senate Chamber on January 10, 1945, announcing his conversion from isolationism to internationalism. In 1947, at the start of the Cold War, Vandenberg became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
