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Robert A. Taft

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Robert Taft in 1939

Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953) was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of theRepublican Party'sTaft family. Taft representedOhio in theUnited States Senate, briefly served asSenate Majority Leader, and was a leader of theconservative coalition ofRepublicans andconservativeDemocrats who prevented expansion of theNew Deal. Often referred to as "Mr. Republican", he cosponsored theTaft–Hartley Act of 1947, which bannedclosed shops, created the concept ofright-to-work states and regulated other labor practices. Inforeign policy, he was anisolationist who initially supported U.S. neutrality inWorld War II, and later opposed U.S. entry intoNATO and theKorean War.

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  • About this whole judgment there is the spirit of vengeance, and vengeance is seldom justice. The hanging of the eleven men convicted will be a blot on the American record which we shall long regret
    • Profiles in Courage, Kennedy, p. 191.
  • As a matter of general principle, I believe there can be no doubt that criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government … too many people desire to suppress criticism simply because they think that it will give some comfort to the enemy to know that there is such criticism. If that comfort makes the enemy feel better for a few moments, they are welcome to it as far as I am concerned, because the maintenance of the right of criticism in the long run will do the country maintaining it a great deal more good than it will do the enemy, and will prevent mistakes which might otherwise occur.

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