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In examining the life of former Senator Robert A. Taft, this volume illuminates not only the history of the conservative opposition to liberal internationalism in the 1940s, but tells us much about the contest over America's proper place in the global economy. Through careful research, Wunderlin offers a fresh look at one of the most important Republican Party congressional leaders of the twentieth century. Read More. In examining the life of former Senator Robert A. Taft, this volume illuminates not only the history of the conservative opposition to liberal internationalism in the 1940s, but tells us much about the contest over America's proper place in the global economy. Through careful research, Wunderlin offers a fresh look at one of the most important Republican Party congressional leaders of the twentieth century. Read Less. All Copies ( 2 ) Softcover ( 2 ) Choose Edition ( 1 ) Book Details Seller Sort. 2005, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. HAGERSTOWN, MD, USA. 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Taft: Ideas Tradition and Party in U.S. Foreign Policy by Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr. Politician, Relative (8-Sep-1889 — 31-Jul-1953) SUBJECT OF BOOKS. Joseph H. Boucher . A Blind Date With Destiny . Roslindale, MA: (privately-printed). 1959 . 118pp. Caroline Thomas Harnsberger . A Man of Courage: Robert A. Taft . Wilcox and Follett Company: Chicago, IL. 1952 . 370pp. Russell Kirk; James McClellan . The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft . New York: Fleet Press Corporation. 1967 . 213pp. James T. Patterson . Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1972 . 749pp. Jhan Robbins . Eight Weeks to Live: The Last Chapter in the Life of Senator Robert A. Taft . Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1954 . 23pp. Phyllis Robbins . Robert A. Taft: Boy and Man . Cambridge, MA: Dresser, Chapman and Grimes. 1963 . 288pp. Gerald Schomp . The Political Assassination of Robert A. Taft . Plantation, FL: Allegiance Books. 1967 . 244pp. Clarence E. Wunderlin . Robert A. Taft: Ideas, Tradition, and Party in U.S. Foreign Policy . Rowman & Littlefield. 2005 . 240pp. Clarence E. Wunderlin (editor) . The Papers of Robert A. Taft . Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. 1997, xxxx, 2003, 2006 . (4 vols.) 620pp. + 688pp. + 584pp. + 514pp. AUTHORITIES. Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual. Robert A. Taft: Ideas Tradition and Party in U.S. Foreign Policy by Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr. TAFT Robert Alphonso. 1889 1953 76 Senator OH Republican 77 Senator OH Republican 78 Senator OH Republican 79 Senator OH Republican 80 Senator OH Republican 81 Senator OH Republican 82 Senator OH Republican 83 Senator OH Republican 1939-1953. (son of President William H. Taft, nephew of Charles Phelps Taft, father of Robert Taft, Jr.) a Senator from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 8, 1889; attended the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, and of Manila, Philippine Islands, and Taft School, Watertown, Conn.; graduated from Yale University in 1910 and from Harvard University Law School in 1913; admitted to the Ohio bar in 1913 and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio; director in a number of business enterprises in Cincinnati; assistant counsel, United States Food Administration 1917-1918; counsel, American Relief Administration 1919; member, Ohio house of representatives 1921- 1926, serving as speaker and majority leader 1926; member, Ohio Senate 1931-1932; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1938; reelected in 1944 and again in 1950 and served from January 3, 1939, until his death; majority leader 1953; co-chairman, Joint Committee on the Economic Report (Eightieth Congress), chairman, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (Eightieth Congress), Republican Policy Committee (Eightieth through Eighty-second Congresses); sponsored the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to create equity in collective bargaining between labor and management; unsuccessful candidate in 1940, 1948, and 1952 for the Republican presidential nomination; died in New York City, July 31, 1953; lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, August 2-3, 1953; interment in Indian Hill Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. American National Biography ; Dictionary of American Biography ; Patterson, James T. Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972; Wunderlin, Clarence E. Robert A. Taft: Ideas, Tradition, and Party in U.S. Foreign Policy . New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. Cincinnati Historical Society Cincinnati, OH. Miscellaneous papers in various collections. Columbia University Oral History Project New York, NY. Interviews (1967-1970) with over thirty former associates, family members, and friends. 1,471 pages. Permission required to cite, quote, or reproduce. Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library New York, NY. Correspondence in George L. Harrison papers, ca. 1926-1940. Cornell University Rare Books and Manuscript Collections Ithaca, NY. Correspondence in Karl Douglas Butler papers, 1931-1984; and Frank Ernest Gannett papers, [ca. 1859]-1958. Eastern Kentucky University Special Collections and Archives Richmond, KY. Correspondence in William Luxon papers, 1817-1978. Hagley Museum and Library Greenville, DE. In J. Howard Pew papers, 1902-1971. Herbert Hoover Library West Branch, IA. 1920-1962. 1 folder (1920); 1 folder (1922-1928); and 1 folder (1958-1962). Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, DC. 1898-1953. 1,507 containers. Family and general correspondence, political and legislative files, subject files, business and financial papers, speeches, articles, writings, photographs, and other material relating chiefly to his Senate career and his role as a national leader in the Republican party. Includes material relating to public policy and legislative issues, especially in the areas of the economy, labor, defense, foreign policy, taxation, and veterans' affairs; his Cincinnati law practice; Ohio politics; and political campaigns. Finding aid. Correspondence in Charles Phelps Taft papers; William H. Taft papers; Helen Taft Manning papers; Harold Hitz Burton papers, 1896-1964; and Henry Fowles Pringle papers, 1932-1957. Milwaukee County Historical Society Milwaukee, WI. Records of Taft presidential campaign in 4th Ward Republican Club records, 1951-1968. Radcliffe College Schlesinger Library Cambridge, MA. In Freida Hennock Simons papers, 1922-1960; Edith Nourse Rogers papers, 1854-1961 (bulk 1881-1961); and Mildred Buchanan Flagg papers, 1876-1955 (bulk 1900-1955). Ohio Historical Society Columbus, OH. Miscellaneous items in various collections including documentation of efforts to nominate Taft at the 1948 Republican convention in Clarence James Brown papers, 1891-1965. South Carolina Historical Society Charleston, SC. Correspondence in St. George's Society records, 1842-1929. State Historical Society of Wisconsin Archives Division Madison, WI. Correspondence in William J. Grede papers, 1909-1979, permission required until 1999; Thomas E. Coleman papers, 1914-1964; Roger Faherty papers, 1940-1965; John W. Hill papers, 1931-1977; Cyrus Philipp papers, 1921-1954, on 9 microfilm reels; and interview notes in Hilmar Robert Baukhage papers, 1906-1962. University of Arkansas at Little Rock Ottenheimer Library Archives and Special Collections Little Rock, AR. University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library Ann Arbor, MI. Correspondence and references in Louis Carlisle Walker papers, 1881-1963; Thomas Marshall Spaulding papers, 1901-1959; John Butler Martin papers, 1948-1965; Edward Gearing Kemp papers, 1920-1962; Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg papers, 1884-1974; Stella Brunt Osborn papers, 1916-1983; Blair Moody papers, 1928-1954; Lloyd Cassel Douglas papers, 1900-1954; Arthur S. Aiton papers, 1922-1959; Edward N. Hartwick papers, 1898-1978; Owen Cleary papers, 1944-1959; and Wilbur M. Brucker papers, 1877-1968. Finding aid. University of New Hampshire Dimond Library Durham, NH. Correspondence in J. Duane Squires papers, 1950-1965. University of Oregon Knight Library Eugene, OR. Correspondence in Wayne L. Morse papers, 1919-1969. Finding aid. University of Virginia Alderman Library Charlottesville, VA. Correspondence in Hugh Scott papers, 1925-1983; and Frederick William McWane papers, 1912-1961. Finding aid. Western Reserve Historical Society Cleveland, OH. Campaign materials in Paul W. Walter papers, 1932-1954. Finding aid. Yale University Libraries Manuscripts and Archives New Haven, CT. Correspondence and references in Harold Phelps Stokes papers, 1908-1969; Harry Weinberger papers, 1915-1942; Anson Phelps Stokes family papers, 1761-1960; Albert Galloway Keller papers, 1888-1956; Edwin Montefiore Borchard papers, 1910-1950; Charles Dewey Hilles papers, 1885-1955; Palestine Statehood committee records, 1933-1972; Charles Parsons papers, 1880-1965; George Howard Edward Smith papers, 1917-1962; and Yale in World War II collection, 1939-1946. Research Libraries Information Network. In addition to the institutions listed above, items are also cataloged in collections at: Harvard Business School, Baker Library, Boston, MA; Harvard University Law School Library, Cambridge, MA; Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN; Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, IN; Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Washington, DC; Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA; and Syracuse University, George Arents Research Library, Syracuse, NY. Robert Taft. Robert Alphonso Taft, Sr. (1889–1953), son of President William Howard Taft, was a leading Republican Senator, 1938–53, and was known as "Mr. Republican". He was a leader of the Conservative Coalition, working with southern Democrats to control Congress. Little major legislation passed the Senate against his objections. His crowning achievement was writing and passing, over President Truman's veto, the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. It balanced the interests of unions, management and the public. Contents. Private life. Taft was the scion of a powerful Republican family based in Cincinnati Ohio. His father was elected president in 1908, and in 1921 became Chief Justice of the United States. Taft's sister Helen Taft Manning was a professor, and his brother Charles Taft was a leading reformer in Cincinnati. As a boy he spent three years in the Philippines, where his father was governor. Known throughout his life for his brilliant grasp of complexity, he was first in his class at the Taft School (run by his uncle), at Yale College (1910) and at Harvard Law School (1913), where he edited the Harvard Law Review . He practiced law with the firm of Maxwell and Ramsey in Cincinnati, Ohio. On Oct. 17, 1914, he married Martha Wheaton Bowers, the daughter of Lloyd Bowers, who had served as his father's solicitor general. Taft confessed in 1922 that "while I have no difficulty talking, I don't know how to do any of the eloquence business which makes for enthusiasm or applause". [1] Taft himself appeared taciturn and coldly intellectual, characteristics that were offset by his gregarious wife, who served the same role his mother had for his father, as a confident and powerful asset to her husband's political career. They had four sons. Robert Alphonso Taft, Jr., served as a senator from Ohio. Horace Dwight Taft, became a professor of physics and dean at Yale. William Howard III served as ambassador to Ireland. Public offices. Rejected by the army for poor eyesight, in 1917 he joined the legal staff of the Food and Drug Administration where he met Herbert Hoover who became his idol. In 1918–19 he was in Paris as legal adviser for the American Relief Administration, Hoover's agency which distributed food to war-torn Europe. He learned to distrust governmental bureaucracy as inefficient and detrimental to the rights of the individual, principles he promoted throughout his career. He distrusted the League of Nations, and European politicians generally. He strongly endorsed the idea of a powerful World Court that would enforce international law, but no such idealized court ever existed. He returned to Ohio in late 1919, promoted Hoover for president, and opened a law firm with his brother Charles Phelps Taft II. In 1920 he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives, where he served as Speaker of the House in 1926. In 1930 he was elected to the state senate, but was defeated for reelection in 1932. As an efficiency-oriented progressive, he worked to modernize the state's antiquated tax laws and supported mildly progressive legislation, such as limitations on child labor. He was an outspoken opponent of the Ku Klux Klan. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he was a powerful figure in local and state political and legal circles, and was known as a loyal Republican who never threatened to bolt the party. Cartoonists loved his rimless spectacles and moonlike face, portraying him something like a grapefruit with eyeglasses. Taft was a boring poor speaker and did not mix well, but his total grasp of the complex details of every issue impressed reporters and politicians. (Democrats joked that "Taft has the best mind in Washington, until he makes it up.") His fans were strongly dedicated to him, while his enemies feared him as the strongest force in Congress. In the 1930s he practiced law, giving speeches critical of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. However he supported such New Deal policies as collective bargaining, stock exchange regulation, minimum wages, old-age pensions, and unemployment insurance. Senator. Taft was elected to the first of his three terms as U.S. Senator in the Republican landslide of 1938. The expansion of the New Deal had been stopped and Taft saw his mission to roll it back, bringing efficiency to government and letting business restore the economy. The New Deal was "socialistic" he proclaimed, as he attacked deficit spending, high farm subsidies, governmental bureaucracy, and the National Labor Relations Board. He did support social security and public housing, while attacking federal health insurance. Taft orchestrated the Conservative Coalition, which had effective control of Congress from 1939 to the early 1960s. Taft set forth a conservative program oriented toward economic growth, individual economic opportunity, adequate social welfare, strong national defense, and non-involvement in European wars. Taft was re-elected again in 1944 and in 1950, after high-profile contests battling the labor unions in an industrial state. He was Senate Majority Leader after the GOP swept the elections of 1946, though he left foreign policy to his colleague Sen. Arthur Vandenberg. Moving a bit to the left in the late 1940s, he supported federal aid to education (which did not pass). He cosponsored the Taft-Wagner-Ellender Housing Act to subsidize public housing in inner cities. Government, he argued in 1946, should "give to all a minimum standard of living," including sufficient education to give "to all children a fair opportunity to get a start in life." [2] Labor issues. The Taft-Hartley Act single-handedly ended a growing problem of strikes after World War II, and preserved capitalism in the United States. Ever since, Democrats have sought unsuccessfully for its repeal. It bans "unfair" union practices, outlaws closed shops, and authorizes the President to seek federal court injunctions to impose an eighty-day cooling-off period if a strike threatened the national interest. Foreign policy. During 1939 to 1941 Taft was strongly opposed American entry into World War II, while supporting military mobilization and limited aid to Britain. He fully endorsed the America First Committee, arguing in January 1941 that "Hitler's defeat is not vital to us." [3] After Pearl Harbor (Dec. 1941), however, he completely supported an all-out war against Germany and Japan. The war itself, Taft always argued, was being fought to "make clear that national aggression cannot succeed in this world", [4] and not as liberals said to advance the Four Freedoms, the Atlantic Charter, or publisher Henry Luce's "American Century." In 1945 Taft found the new United Nations Charter sacrificed "law and justice" to "force and expediency." he lost some popularity when he stated that the Nuremberg trials were based on faulty ex post facto statutes; that position earned him a chapter in Senator John F. Kennedy's famous book, Profiles in Courage (1958). In the late 1940s, Taft did not view Stalin's Soviet Union as a major threat. Nor did he pay much attention to internal Communism. The true danger he said was big government and runaway spending. He supported the Truman Doctrine, reluctantly approved the Marshall Plan but tried to cut its budget, and opposed NATO as unnecessary and provocative. In 1950-52 he took the lead condemning President Harry S. Truman's handling of the Korean War. Taft tolerated Senator Joseph McCarthy's attacks on Democrats, claimed President Truman was fostering a "police state," and blamed General George C. Marshall for the loss of China and the subsequent Korean War. Berger (1967) rejected the liberal criticism of Taft as an "isolationist", which is a pejorative term used by the Left to smear opponents of globalism. Berger says Taft was rather a "conservative nationalist at odds with the struggling attempts of liberal American policy-makers to fashion a program in the postwar years." Taft profoundly believed in the exceptionalism of America and its people, and argued the "principal purpose of the foreign policy of the United States is to maintain the liberty of our people." Taft identified three fundamental requirements for the maintenance of American liberty-an economic system based on free enterprise, a political system based on democracy, and national independence and sovereignty. All three, he feared, might be destroyed in a war, or even by extensive preparations for war, so he did not see Stalin's Soviet Union as a major threat to American values. Nor did he pay much attention to internal Communism. The true danger he said was big government and runaway spending. He supported the Truman Doctrine, reluctantly approved the Marshall Plan, and opposed NATO as unnecessary and provocative. He consistently opposed the draft and took the lead condemning President Harry S. Truman's handling of the Korean War. [5] Presidency. Taft sought the GOP nomination in 1948 but it went to his arch-rival, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. One reason was Taft's reluctance to support farm subsidies, a position that hurt his party in the farm belt. Taft relied on a national core of loyalists, but had trouble breaking through to independents, and hated to raise money. Taft tried again in 1952, using a strong party base. He promised his supporters that he would name Douglas MacArthur as candidate for Vice President, but was defeated by charismatic Dwight Eisenhower. Conservatives felt that chicanery by his opponents caused his narrow defeat at the Republican National Convention. To gain Taft's support in the campaign, Eisenhower promised he would take no reprisals against Taft partisans, would cut federal spending, and would fight "creeping socialism in every domestic field." All along Eisenhower agreed with Taft on most domestic issues; their dramatic difference was in foreign policy. Eisenhower firmly believed in NATO and committed the U.S. to an active anti-Communist foreign policy. His death was untimely, succumbing to cancer only six months after becoming the Senate Majority leader in 1953. He is honored with a special monument on Capitol Hill, and was selected in 1959 by senators as one of the five most significant senators in history.