Talk:Robert Taft
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If your going to fix the page, fix the page. Be bold. Don't leave stuff there if you know that it is wrong, please just fix it and then explain in here on the talk page, not in the body of the article, please. (Other references suggest multiple ballots at this convention but what you say from your source really makes more sense. Please just put it in the article and delete the rest. If others feel it is wrong, it will be changed or at least discussed here.) Rlquall 20:03, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I changed the phrase about his being an isolationist. He had isolationist tendencies but had strongly supported the U.S. inclusion in the League of Nations after W.W. I. He also supported intervention if it had direct affect in U.S. interests and if the action was formally submitted to the Senate as the Constitution stipulates. He later supported the U.N. until it's formation made clear that the Security Council would have veto power. At that point he withdrew his support, not because of isolationism, but because as a world body it was pointless if a member could void an action on it's own. TKA
I wonder why there is nothing about the Taft Bill, for he is known for his famous "flip", when, as an ardent conservative republican, he decides to support Federal Aid to school bill? New user: Minche, June 25, 2006
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- education bill is mentioned (it did not pass). He was isolationist leader in 1933-41 period.
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[edit] MacArthur 1952?
My inclination was also to remove the sentence about Douglas MacArthur from Robert Taft's article (your edit). However, a Google search provided an apparently valid source for the info, which I instead added.
Did you check the source before your removal, and note its quote from a book by Pennsylvania State University historian Stanley Weintraub?
What associated event(s) do you believe did not happen? --Adavidb 08:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
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- The problem is threefold: 1) it mis-states what happened -- Taft asked MacArthur to be his VP, and MacArthur probably would have accepted if Taft won nomination. 2) It strongly suggests that MacArthur was a candidate. he was not and Weintraub does not claim he was; 3) it speculates on things that never happened, which is entertaining but not enyclopedic. Rjensen 09:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
While not a declared presidential candidate, MacArthur did receive ballots for nomination as the Republican candidate during the 1952 United States presidential election process. --Adavidb 09:35, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] template
The template on the right of the article is a bit "off" in that the term "In office" doesn't seem associated with his death. An ill-informed person might read that he is indeed *IN office* today. Perhaps it could say "died in office" or something more obvious. Reboot 15:37, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
- Disregard...I get it now Reboot 15:51, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Paleoconservative?
- As a U.S. senator, he was given the nickname "Mr. Republican"; he was the chief ideologue and spokesperson for the paleoconservatism of the Republican Party of that era.
Did "paleoconservatism" as such even exist then? It wouldn't be appropriate to label the subject with anancronistic political terms. Unless we have a source for this assertion it should be removed or substantially re-written. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 23:05, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] U.S. Senator
Taft was not enthusiastic about U.S. ground forces. He supported the Navy and a strategic reliance on nuclear delivery by air power. He effectively allowed the Army to be gutted, and even though Eisenhower was critical of him for that at the time, later when Ike became President little was done to reverse the effects of Taft's influence in that regard. In took until the advent of the JFK administration to begin rebuilding the Army (1961 & 62 were the pivotal years). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.106.18.161 (talk) 03:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Isolationist???
I strongly object to the extremely liberal and inaccurate use of the term "isolationist" on Taft's page. Every time it is used, it seems to be in context of Taft's non-interventionist foreign policy, which has little to do with isolationism, the latter term more frequently pertaining to international travel and commerce. I don't understand why this term has been so aggressively misappropriated lately, but with the distinguishing and entirely separate term non-interventionism disappearing from the radar, it's getting harder and harder to find phraseological nuance in these articles for political figures and movements. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Buddy-Rey (talk • contribs) 18:23, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
