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This is a a collection of anecdotes about some of the most important events in American history, written by the renowned Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt. The stories cover everything from the colonial era through the Civil War, profiling important people and battles along the way.
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He was born on July 5, 1902, in Nahant, Massachussets, United States. After the death of his poet father when the younger Lodge was seven, he lived during part of his childhood with his grandfather, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (R. , Massachussets). He was also the descendant of five other U. S. senators.
He was educated at the Middlesex School and at Harvard College, from which he graduated cum laude after three years in 1924.
After studies Lodge became a newspaperman on the Boston Evening Transcript and the New York Herald Tribune.
In 1932 Lodge was elected to the Massachusetts house of representatives, and he served as chairman of its labor committee following his reelection in 1934. In 1936 he was the only Republican in the United States to win a U. S. Senate seat from the Democrats, defeating Boston's colorful Mayor James Michael Curley by 135, 000 votes while Massachusetts was going Democratic presidentially by 174, 000 votes.
He was reelected to the Senate in 1942, but he resigned his seat in 1944 to go on active army service. He won election to the Senate again in 1946. Lodge managed the successful 1952 campaign of General Dwight D. Eisenhower to win the Republican presidential nomination from Senator Robert A. Taft (R. , Ohio), the leader of the conservative wing of the party. But, in the process, Lodge alienated many Taft Republicans in Massachusetts and neglected his own campaign for reelection to the Senate that year. The result was his defeat in 1952 for the Senate by Democrat John F. Kennedy, a defeat that seemed to mark the end of Lodge's career in active politics.
From 1953 to 1960 Lodge served as the U. S. ambassador to the United Nations, a post at that time made more important by two developments. First, Lodge served also as a personal member of the cabinet. This fact, combined with his close relationship with President Eisenhower, gave Lodge an influence on policy formation. Second, the growth of television in the United States brought the UN debates into most U. S. homes. Throughout the UN debates on Hungary, Suez, colonial policy, and other major issues Lodge, as the spokesman of the United States, developed a wide personal popularity. This popularity surprised most professional politicians after Richard M. Nixon chose him as his vice-presidential running mate in 1960. It was generally thought to have contributed substantially to the strength of the Nixon-Lodge ticket that year in the closest popular vote since that between Grover Cleveland and James G. Blaine in 1884.
Upon his return to the U. S. Senate in 1947, Lodge became a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and the protege of its then chairman, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. , Mich. ), the leader of the Republican internationalists. In June 1963 Lodge was appointed U. S. ambassador to South Vietnam by President John F. Kennedy, and he remained in that position after Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency following the assassination of Kennedy in November 1963.
While Lodge was in Vietnam, his supporters achieved an amazing plurality for him as a write-in candidate in the 1964 New Hampshire presidential primary, but he never became a declared candidate. Except for a 14-month interval from mid-1964 to mid-1965, Lodge remained in Saigon as U. S. ambassador until he was replaced by Ellsworth Bunker in 1967. Throughout 1968 he continued his ambassadorial service, as an at-large envoy and as ambassador to West Germany. In January 1969 President Nixon named Lodge to head the U. S. delegation in the "peace talks" taking place in Paris, but after ten frustrating months Lodge resigned. During the next seven years he served President Nixon as a special envoy to the Vatican.
(This is a a collection of anecdotes about some of the mos...)
With some exceptions, Lodge's political positions were those generally associated with Eastern moderate, internationalist Republicans. In conformity with his military interests and later career at the United Nations, Lodge's internationalism tended to stress armed strength.
He accepted the significance of civil service reform, maintaining the gold standard, expanding the Navy, developing policies for the Philippine Islands, and trying to restrict immigration by illiterate Europeans, as well as his support for some progressive reforms. Most of all he appealed to party loyalty.
In 1926 he married Emily Sears of Beverly, Massachussets They had two sons, George Cabot Lodge and Henry Sears Lodge.
