Word: examinist
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...told [by Senator Taft that] it is very rude to refer to anybody as an isolationist . . . that all isolationists are extinct, that they are just as dead as the dodo. But there is a new species on the horizon and this new species I call the 're-examinist,' because the re-examinist says, 'I want to re-examine all our policies...
...would compare the re-examinist to a farmer who pulled up his crops in the morning to see how they had done during the night, or to the man & wife who asked themselves each morning whether they were really in love. Such persons are isolationists after all, he said, because they were "incapable of constancy of purpose, incapable of leadership where mutual confidence is required...
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