Lodge, Henry Cabot
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Lodge, Henry Cabot (1902–1985), senator and diplomat.Born in Massachusetts, Lodge was the grandson of the Massachusetts senator for whom he was named. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1936 and 1942, he resigned in 1944 to go on active duty in Europe with the Second Armored Division. Lieutenant Colonel Lodge received several combat decorations. Reelected to the Senate in 1946, he lost his seat to
John F. Kennedy in 1952. Lodge served from 1953 to 1960 as U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations and was the Republican nominee for vice president in 1960.
President Kennedy named Lodge ambassador to South Vietnam. When Lodge arrived in Saigon in August 1963, members of South Vietnam's armed forces were plotting the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Lodge tried unsuccessfully to get Diem to remove his unpopular brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, from the government, and the ambassador concluded that Diem was politically doomed. On 1 November 1963, a coup toppled Diem's government and led to the murders of Diem and Nhu. Lodge emphatically denied subsequent allegations in
The Pentagon Papers (1971) and other accounts that he authorized or encouraged the coup on instructions from Washington. The embassy had knowledge of the plot, he admitted, but not of its timing and details, especially the murders.
Lodge resigned as ambassador in June 1964 to participate in the Republican presidential nomination process, but he returned to head the U.S. Embassy in Saigon July 1965–April 1967. From June to December 1966, he engaged in Project Marigold—secret but futile talks through Polish intermediaries to explore a negotiated settlement with North Vietnam. In March 1968, Lodge was part of the group of elder statesmen, the Wise Men, who advised
Lyndon B. Johnson not to send more troops to Vietnam. He was a delegate to the Vietnam peace talks in Paris in 1969 and served as ambassador to Bonn and the Vatican before retiring in 1977.
[See also
Pentagon Papers;
Vietnam War: Military and Diplomatic Course.]
Bibliography
Henry Cabot Lodge , The Storm Has Many Eyes, 1973.
Ellen J. Hammer , A Death in November: America in Vietnam, 1963, 1987.
David L. Anderson
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EMILY E. CLARK, AT 86; WAS WIFE OF AMBASSADOR HENRY CABOT LODGE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/7/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...senator and ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, died yesterday...very sorry Senator Lodge could not be with...Her father was Dr. Henry F. Sears, a wealthy...the Cabots and Lodges -- could trace its...of which she and Lodge built their own house...George Lodge and Henry ...
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; Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, 82, a former Tuskegee Airman who bate tied racial barriers in postwar Florida and when told he couldn't take his children...
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Lott's Choice: It's Henry Cabot Lodge or Arthur Vandenberg
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 4/21/1997; ; 656 words
; ...In 1920, the Treaty of Versailles, with its League of Nations Covenant, was voted down when Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge set conditions that Democratic President Wood-row Wilson felt he could not accept. Isolationism triumphed, and...
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Emily Clark, Widow of Sen. Lodge, Dies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/8/1992; ; 700+ words
; Emily Sears Lodge Clark, 86, the widow of...Republican senator and diplomat Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts...Over the years, her son, Henry Sears Lodge, said, she...diplomacy. Two of Henry Cabot Lodge's more memorable...
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EMILY LODGE CLARK, WIDOW OF DIPLOMAT
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; ...Clark, the widow of Henry Cabot Lodge, the U.S. senator...cancer, said her son Henry Sears Lodge. She was...consort's role during Lodge's long public career...Nonetheless, when the Lodges got the news that Vice...she later reported, "Cabot was very calm about it...
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Rival internationalisms: Lodge, Wilson, and the two Roosevelts.
Magazine article from: World Policy Journal; 6/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...of internationalism in the United States today. Lodge's Ambiguities Henry Cabot Lodge won the first two of the three debates to which...the Senate next year."(4) Proud that as a Cabot he descended from a founder of the English settlement...
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Escape from behind the Iron Curtain: the odyssey of a Lodge-Act SF soldier.
Magazine article from: Special Warfare; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...action by America was known as the "Lodge Act," because it was sponsored by then-Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who later became the U.S...the United Nations. Officially, the Lodge Act was de
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Escape from behind the Iron Curtain: The odyssey of a lodge-act SF soldier
Magazine article from: Special Warfare; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...action by America was known as the "Lodge Act," because it was sponsored by then-Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who later became the U.S...the United Nations. Officially, the Lodge Act was de
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Sen. Lodge back at State House.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 3/21/1997; 321 words
; ...to a shrub DiNicola found the missing bronze bust of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the former U.S. senator who died in 1985...But the replica of a bronze cast of a 27-year-old Lodge - who served in the U.S. Senate and in a variety of...
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Interview: Garry Wills discusses his book "Henry Adams and the Making of America"
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR); 9/15/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...history at Harvard, he had let his prize student, Henry Cabot Lodge, take the Federalists' side and teach that, while...he was far more radical than his own ancestors, and Henry Cabot Lodge would give them a much fairer shake. The reason...
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Henry Cabot Lodge Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), American political leader, was one of the important Senate foes of the League of Nations. Henry Cabot Lodge was born in Boston of parents from distinguished families. He received a bachelor...
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Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902-1985) was a patrician, elitist, pragmatist, and moderate Republican politician whose career as congressman, senator, ambassador, and presidential adviser added prestige to his already...
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Lodge, Henry Cabot
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
LODGE, HENRY CABOT Henry Cabot Lodge helped write the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 (15 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq.). He was an enthusiastic supporter of the spanish-american war of 1898 and advocated military power as the United...
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Lodge, Henry Cabot 1850-1924
Book article from: American Decades
LODGE, HENRY CABOT 1850-1924 U.s. senator, 1893-1924 A Conservative Republican As a leader of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts fought the social and political reforms advocated...
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Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. 1902-85, American public official and diplomat, U.S. Senator...Massachusetts (1937-44, 1947-53), b. Nahant, Mass.; grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge. He was a journalist on the Boston Evening Transcript and then...
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