attorney J. Haden Alldredge on the latter's qualifications for the
Interstate Commerce Commission, March 8, 1939 Beginning in 1923, Johnson served in the
Colorado House of Representatives for four terms. He was
lieutenant governor from 1931 to 1933. He represented Colorado for three terms in the
United States Senate from 1937 until 1955, during which time from 1937 to 1940 he was an intraparty critic of the
New Deal policies of
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1946 Johnson was Chairman of the Senate Committee examining the progress of demobilization from WWII. In response to widespread protests by G.I.'s, he stated that with the exception of troops in Germany and Japan, troops such as in India, Burma, Java and the Philippine Island should be brought home at once. Johnson served as the
26th and 34th governor of Colorado from January 10, 1933 until January 1, 1937 and from January 11, 1955 until January 8, 1957. He opposed FDR’s
New Deal policies. Bergman returned to
Hollywood in the 1956 blockbuster film
Anastasia. In 1972,
Senator Charles H. Percy of
Illinois entered an apology into the
Congressional Record for Johnson’s attack, which had been made on Bergman twenty-two years earlier.
Atomic bombs Johnson is also known for the alternative he presented to mankind in November 1945: "God Almighty in His infinite wisdom [has] dropped the atomic bomb in our lap." Now for the first time the United States, "with vision and guts and plenty of atomic bombs," could "compel mankind to adopt the policy of lasting peace … or be burned to a crisp."
Zionism Johnson was a Zionist who supported the establishment of
Israel. ==Sport affiliations==