The famous Cold War senator, Arthur Vandenberg, advocated a middle ground between overextension and isolationism for US ...

A leading isolationist voice before Pearl Harbor helped build support for an internationalist U.S. foreign policy after World ...

"To Make a Good Society" (TIME, July 5, 1948) -- The face of the Republican Party, as shown by its candidates, had never appeared so photogenic, so confident, so politically winning. Gazing out from ...

Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg: Arts and Culture\Journalism and Media\Newspaper editor Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg: Arts and Culture\Journalism and Media\Journalist\Reporter\Newspaper Arthur Hendrick ...

“We, the undersigned, representing official Republicans of Michigan . . . unanimous belief . . . Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg should be drafted for the next Republican Presidential nomination.” Thus ...

Introduction -- "That day ended isolationism" -- "We must not fumble the peace" -- "Hunting for the middle ground" -- Skirmish with the state department -- "The macarthur adventure" -- Committee of ...

In 1946, at the close of World War II, and as the Soviet Union rushed to take over Europe, Michigan Sen. Arthur Vandenberg told President Harry Truman that he had to “scare the hell out of the ...

Politics is supposed to stop at the water’s edge. That thought, expressed in 1947 by U.S. Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican from Michigan, was a call to American leaders to be a wall of solidarity ...