Robert A. Taft

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Robert A. Taft


Born
in Cincinnati, Ohio, The United States
September 08, 1889

Died
July 31, 1953


Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953) was a conservative American politician, statesman, and presidential hopeful who served as a United States Senator from Ohio from 1939 until his death in 1953. A member of the Republican Taft political family, he was the elder son of William Howard Taft (the 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States).

Taft was the Senate's main opponent of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal domestic policies.

After the president's death, Taft successfully led the conservative coalition's efforts to curb the power of labor unions. Taft was a leading advocate of non-interventionism in foreign policy. He failed in his quests to win the Republican Party's presidential nominat
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A Foreign Policy for Americans

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Are Four Isms Killing America?

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“Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.”
Robert A. Taft

“[T]he forcing of any special brand of freedom and democracy on a people, whether they want it or not, by the brute force of war will be a denial of those very democratic principles which we are striving to advance.”
Robert A. Taft, A Foreign Policy for Americans

“For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win”
Robert A. Taft
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