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In 1960, he was the Republican nominee for Vice President on a ticket with Richard Nixon, who had served two terms as Eisenhower's vice president. The Republican ticket narrowly lost to Democrats John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson ; Lodge later served as a diplomat in the administrations of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Gerald Ford ...
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22 de mar. de 2024 · Henry Cabot Lodge was a U.S. senator and diplomat who ran unsuccessfully for the vice presidency of the United States in 1960. He was the grandson of Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924) and a member of a politically dedicated family that included six U.S. senators and a governor of Massachusetts.
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Vice Presidential nominee. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1960 election.
- Member of A Prominent Political Family
- Ambassador to South Vietnam
- Supporter of Limited U.S. Involvement in Vietnam
- Returns to Vietnam
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- Lodge's Message Supporting A Military Coup
Henry Cabot Lodge was born on July 5, 1902, in Nahant, Massachusetts. He was raised in one of New England's most distinguished and powerful Republican families. In addition, his grandfather—and namesake—Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924) had been a U.S. senator and one of President Theodore Roosevelt's closest friends and political allies. After earning...
When Lodge arrived in South Vietnam in August 1963, its government was engaged in a struggle for political survival. The nation had been created nine years earlier, after Vietnam defeated its old French colonial rulers to gain independence. But the 1954 Geneva peace agreement that ended the French-Vietnamese conflict created two countries within Vi...
In the months following Diem's removal, Lodge repeatedly expressed support for decisive military action against North Vietnam. He encouraged President Lyndon Johnson (who succeeded Kennedy after his assassination in November 1963) to authorize air strikes against North Vietnam. The ambassador argued that an effective bombing campaign would raise sp...
When Lodge returned to Saigon as U.S. ambassador, he worked on "pacification" programs designed to increase popular support for the South Vietnamese government among ordinary citizens. In addition, he lobbied the Johnson administration to increase the level of bombing against North Vietnam. But Lodge privately expressed little confidence in the nat...
Blair, Anne E. Lodge in Vietnam: A Patriot Abroad. New Haven, CT: Yale UniversityPress, 1995. Hammer, Ellen J. A Death in November: America in Vietnam, 1963. New York: Dutton, 1987. Lodge, Henry Cabot. As It Was: An Inside View of Politics and Power in the '50s and '60s.New York: Norton, 1976. Lodge, Henry Cabot. The Storm Has Many Eyes: A Personal...
When Lodge became U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam in mid-1963, he quickly determined that the Saigon government headed by President Ngo Dinh Diem (see entry) was doomed to fail. For this reason, Lodge urged the Kennedy administration not to oppose a proposed military coup that would remove Diem from power. On October 25, 1963, Lodge sent a message...
Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924) was an American politician, historian, lawyer, and statesman from Massachusetts. A member of the Republican Party, he served in the United States Senate from 1893 to 1924 and is best known for his positions on foreign policy.
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Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge accepted the nomination to be the 1960 Republican candidate for vice president of the United States. His speech took place at the Republican National...
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22 de mar. de 2024 · Washington Conference. Henry Cabot Lodge (born May 12, 1850, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died November 9, 1924, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Republican U.S. senator for more than 31 years (1893–1924); he led the successful congressional opposition to his country’s participation in the League of Nations following World War I. Lodge, Henry Cabot.
