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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.
On January 10, 1945, he delivered his most memorable speech in the Senate, confessing that prewar isolationism was the wrong course, calling on America to assume the responsibilities of world leadership, and endorsing the creation of the United Nations.
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. Editor of the Grand Rapids Herald from 1906, Vandenberg became active.
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Dec 4, 2011 · Because of an editing error, an opinion essay on Nov. 27 about Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., a former Republican official, incorrectly described Dwight D. Eisenhower’s status in December 1952,...
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.
