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Bookmark or Share- A Foreign Policy for All Americans - Teaching American HistoryA Republican and the son of former president William Howard Taft, Robert Taft was a critic of the internationalist and interventionist foreign policy that characterized the presidencies of Harry Truman (1884–1972) and Dwight Eisenhower (1890–1969).
- Robert A. Taft - WikipediaRobert 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 ...
- Robert A. Taft – Modern AgeDubbed “Mr. Republican,” Taft represented a noninterventionist and domestically combative wing of the Republican Party that would suffer an eclipse in the years following his death. Taft was an outspoken opponent of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and an opponent of the expansion of federal power.
- Robert A. Taft | Ohio Senator, US Presidential Candidate ...Robert A. Taft (born Sept. 8, 1889, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died July 31, 1953, New York, N.Y.) was a Republican leader in the U.S. Senate for 14 years (1939–53) whose espousal of traditional conservatism won him the sobriquet “Mr. Republican”.
- Robert Taft - New World EncyclopediaRobert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft political family of Ohio, was a Republican United States Senator and as a prominent conservative spokesman was the leading opponent of the New Deal in the Senate from 1939 to 1953. He led the successful effort by the Conservative coalition to curb legal favoritism for labor ...
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