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Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft was a leading opponent of interventionism after 1945, although it always played a secondary role to his deep interest in domestic affairs. Historian George Fujii, citing the Taft papers, argues:
Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953) was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family.Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate majority leader, and was a leader of the conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats who blocked expansion of the New Deal.
Much of the impetus for this isolationism came from college students, with Yale University being a particularly strong outpost of such sentiments. [9] The America First Committee was established on September 4, 1940, by Yale Law School student R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. (son of R. Douglas Stuart , co-founder of Quaker Oats ). [ 2 ]
Robert Taft was definitely a sovereigntist. So was Jesse Helms. Reagan definitely had a sovereigntist streak—hence his opposition to giving away the Panama Canal. ... The claim that isolationism ...
Not since the years before America entered World War II, when Ohio Sen. Robert Taft and others warned against giving a “blank check” to Britain, has isolationist sentiment gained so much ...
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is warning isolationists within his party on the 80th anniversary of D-Day not to forget the hard-won lessons of World War II and not to fall prey to ...
Taft and Dewey began to diverge on their attacks against the Roosevelt administration; Taft maintained strict opposition to American involvement in the war, while Dewey accepted American support for the Allies as inevitable and criticized the President's failure to ensure military preparedness in case of German aggression.
[107] [108] Republican Senator Robert A. Taft stayed quiet on foreign and defense issues, while many of the energetic isolationists of the 1930s, including Hiram Johnson and William Borah, were in poor health or had seen their influence decline. During the war, there were no secret briefings, and members of Congress were often no better ...