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Then he shellacked the Republican isolationists, with a passing reference to his highly successful "Martin, Barton & Fish" line from the 1940 campaign. Martin and Fish are still there, he said, and in a Republican Congress they would become, respectively, Speaker of the House and chairman of the House Rules Committee. And, said the President, he just wanted to remind the voters that, if Republicans should gain control of the Senate, his "old friend," California's 78-year-old, rock-ribbed isolationist Hiram Johnson might become chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and North Dakota's isolationist Gerald...
Wisconsin's prewar isolationist Bob La Follette wrote in his official party paper, The Progressive: "It is time to speak up. To speak up with an American peace program which would capture the imagination and win the hearts of people everywhere. But instead of speaking up, President Roosevelt and Governor Dewey seem to have entered into a conspiracy of silence...
Roared the Democrats: "THE ELEPHANT DOES FORGET" (its isolationist statements, the Hoover depression). Dewey is unpopular with his own party. Dewey is full of confused contradictions in his frantic effort to keep up with public opinion...
...strategy called for alternate introductions by the candidates. Both jockeyed for official G.O.P. favor. But the significance of this adroit move, obviously sanctioned by the high command, was not lost on North Dakotans. It was plain that Tom Dewey had ordered no more than the merest routine courtesy to Isolationist Nye, and had given Independent Lynn Stambaugh a pat on the back. This was also typical Dewey caution...
Lieut. Commander James Edward Van Zandt, 45, onetime commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, onetime isolationist and anglophobic U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, who volunteered for Navy action when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, got a Legion of Merit from General MacArthur for "splendid performance of duty" as commander of assault waves in "sustained operations against the enemy...