Talk:Arthur Vandenberg

Cleanup
I added titles to this page, given all the work that has been dine I removed the Wikify template because the article looks fine now.Seth J. Frantzman (talk) 11:24, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Father of neoconservativism
Arthur Vandenberg is indeed the father of Republican neoconservativism, as I will be happy to document. Neoconservativsim orginiated on September 6 1943 at the Mackinac Conferance at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, to which a Michigan State Historical marker stands. Any other such so-called meaning of "neoconservativsim" such as is popular today is assigned by persons other than "neoconservatives." I will be happy to document the evidence. Nobs 16:59, 16 May 2005 (UTC)


 * From the Wikipedia article: "Broadly sympathetic to Woodrow Wilson's idealistic goals to spread American ideals of government, economics, and culture abroad"; (Neoconservatism_in_the_United_States), i.e. Republican internationalism = neoconservativism, as opposed to traditional conservative isolationism. nobs 00:40, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

A speech of his
According to some original research I done while serving for jury duty I came across some intersting words of his. According to the person I talked to he was the first Western Country politican to discuss the aspect of an Iron Curtian in Europe. Now I do not have any info at hand to say it was true but I believe a search in the GR Press archives should provide some answers or a search of the senate records of late '45 should provide an answer. --Mihsfbstadium 14:13, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Reapportionment Act of 1929
I rather doubt a freshman Senator "piloted" as important a piece of legislation as this. It would be nice to have a solid and specific source. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 23:42, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Appointment
Vandenberg was the 4th journalist/editor in the Senate when he was appointed. That's of borderline significance, almost trivia. This sentence:


 * "Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats."

is less than trivia. I can understand, perhaps, leaving this info in the notes, but it doesn't belong in an encyclopedic account of Vandenberg's career. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 18:55, 15 January 2011 (UTC)