Sarah Palin = Dan Quayle Nov 18, 2009
But neither Charles Bryan (1924) nor Joe Robinson (1928) nor Charles Curtis (1932) nor Frank Knox (1936) nor Charles McNary (1940) nor John Bricker (1944) nor John Sparkman (1952) nor Kefauver (1956) nor Henry Cabot Lodge (1960) was a presidential contender during the next cycle. Barry Goldwater's 1964 running mate, William Miller, cut one of the early American Express "Do you know me?" ads featuring pitchmen whose 15 minutes of fame had expired. (Slate)
History's noteworthy Senate debates Nov 18, 2009
Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was a fierce opponent of the Treaty of Versailles. He fought against it with full might in the Republican-dominated Senate. (CNN)
Hamid Karzai: Afghanistan's Diem Oct 30, 2009
He ordered the American ambassador at the time, Henry Cabot Lodge, not to meet with Diem, and soon American military commanders gave the go-ahead to a coup by Diem's own military leaders. The new leaders let the network of thugs, criminals, gangsters, and ex-colonialists fall apart, and with it, Saigon's security. (Asia Times Online)
For Senate, Mass. demands leaders, not back-benchers Oct 21, 2009
Henry Cabot Lodge Sr., Leverett Saltonstall, Paul Tsongas, and John Kerry didn t achieve prominence because of their last names; Massachusetts voters provided the platform from which they could weigh in on national issues. Joseph Martin, John McCormack, Tip O Neill, Joe Moakley, Ed Markey, Barney Frank, and other powerful speakers and committee chairmen didn t take the House by storm; they were given the time and mandate from the voters to achieve real power. (Boston Globe)
Gore Vidals United States of Fury, Johann Hari, The Independent Oct 9, 2009
"I had known vaguely about our numerous past interventions in Central America. But that was the past." He discovered that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was leading the charge, and "I didn't believe it. Lodge was a family friend; as a boy I had discussed poetry with him". He says he realised then he had been fighting "for an Empire, not a republic". (Harper's Magazine)
Senate OK’s Kennedy successor bill Sep 23, 2009
The others were William M. Butler, appointed in 1924 after the death of Henry Cabot Lodge; Sinclair Weeks, appointed in 1944 after the resignation of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; and Benjamin Smith, appointed in 1960 when Senator John F. Kennedy resigned after being elected president. The Senate vote yesterday capped a furious lobbying campaign by national Democrats that began shortly after Kennedy s death last month. (Boston Globe)
Zelizer: Why the shock about Joe Wilson? Sep 15, 2009
When a peace activist approached Massachusetts Republican Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate hallway in 1917 and branded him as a "damned coward" for calling on America to enter into World War I, the senator hit him in the face. A fistfight ensued in the corridor. (CNN -- US)
AP: Sen. Edward Kennedy, 77, Dies After Cancer Battle Aug 30, 2009
Kennedy won the primary by 300,000 votes and went on to overwhelmingly defeat Republican George Cabot Lodge, son of the late Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, in the general election. Devastated by his brothers' assassinations and injured in a 1964 plane crash that left him with back pain that would plague him for decades, Kennedy temporarily withdrew from public life in 1968. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Who will bear the torch? Aug 27, 2009
(In 1952, John F. Kennedy wrested a US Senate seat away from Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., whom he later appointed as ambassador to South Vietnam). Even in Massachusetts, where Kennedys have served in Congress for all but two of the last 62 years, analysts say any family members trying to follow in Ted Kennedy s footsteps may confront a new skepticism about dynasties. (Boston Globe)
The Kennedy Succession: Preparing for a Scramble Aug 27, 2009
Dynasties don't last forever; the "Kennedy seat" was once the "Lodge seat," held by Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. and then Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. before John snatched it from Junior and Ted kept it from Junior's son George. And Ted's passing, after all, is the end of an era. (Time.com)
Iconic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, 77, Dies Aug 26, 2009
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. Kennedy arrived in the chamber at age 30, the minimum age required for a senator. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
The Wilsonian Delusion Aug 21, 2009
The American Conservative -- In Wilson's Wake. 2009 The American Conservative. (The American Conservative)
Geraldine McLaughlin, 92; organized teas for JFK’s run for Senate Jul 6, 2009
She was part of the tight circle of women who organized the ladies tea receptions on behalf of Kennedy that his opponent, incumbent Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, credited with putting the young politician over the edge. It was those damn teas that licked me, Cabot Lodge was widely reported to have said at the time. (Boston Globe)
Khrushchev in America Jun 20, 2009
Most were friendly, but one woman, dressed all in black, clutched a black flag and a terse sign that read: "Death to Khrushchev, the Butcher of Hungary." Enraged, the premier asked Henry Cabot Lodge, the American ambassador to the United Nations who was accompanying him, "If Eisenhower wanted to have me insulted, why did he invite me to come to the United States?" Lodge was baffled. Surely Khrushchev didn't believe that the president had personally arranged for the woman to stand on that... (The American Conservative)
'K Blows Top' recounts Khrushchev's bizarre US tour in 1959 May 31, 2009
Or this: Khrushchev and his official guide, the Boston Brahmin Henry Cabot Lodge, zipping through Harlem at 7 a.m. in a limousine on their way to the airport. "This isn't bad," K tells Lodge. (Boston Globe)
Torture memos and historical amnesia May 21, 2009
The results were hailed by the respected and influential Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in 1898 ... From George Washington to Henry Cabot Lodge, those engaged in the enterprise had a clearer grasp of just what they were doing. (Asia Times Online)
You'll Simply Love Azerbaijan May 19, 2009
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy picked Henry Cabot Lodge to be his ambassador to South Vietnam. That would be like Barack Obama picking Sarah Palin as his Afghanistan liaison. (Slate)
Republicans Slam Doors on Own Party Apr 30, 2009
But it really is a sad day for anyone who has fond memories of a Grand Old Party that had room for a Rockefeller and a Scranton and a Henry Cabot Lodge, for Ed Brooke and for my dad, and even for a kid marching as a "Brooke girl" at the Topsfield Fair in my first campaign. I got lost, but he won. (Newsmax)
A hall of shame Feb 27, 2009
Gardner Auditorium is named for Augustus Peabody Gardner, a congressman who was married to the daughter of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, whose family inspired the ditty: And this is good old Boston, the land of the bean and the cod. Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God. (Boston Globe)
Progressivism and Teddy Roosevelt Feb 10, 2009
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts wrote the president stating that the lack of coal shipped to New England in the face of winter was creating serious concerns. He also reminded Roosevelt that the mid-term elections were rapidly approaching. (Suite101.com)
