Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government, said Taft, had an obligation to help those who simply could not help themselves. On that principle he estimated the Taft program for housing, health, education and relief would cost only $1 billion a year; in contrast, he figured, the Fair Deal line which Harry Truman was peddling would cost the country $14 billion a year...
Through four Ohio counties last week, Senator Robert Taft methodically toted his political sample bag, dispensing his own brand of anti-Fair Deal specifics. He had abandoned his upturned Panama for a nondescript grey fedora. Grinning, never argumentative, spouting statistics and shaking his forefinger, he trotted from Cleveland to Parkman to Painesville to Warren and points between, opening his bag and displaying his wares...
What he was trying to sell, he explained, was a middle way. Said Drummer Taft: "There is a middle way. We need not agree with those who want government to run their daily lives and look after the welfare of every citizen to the destruction of individual liberty and incentive and progress. On the other hand, we need not agree with those who refuse any interest on the part of the Federal Government...
...Taft himself had to admit the possibility; that was why he was in Ohio this week, worried and working. Taft's defeat could well mark the end for years to come of any coherent opposition to the Fair Deal. "And if he wins," hazarded an Ohio newspaper, editor, "he'll be the next Republican presidential candidate." It was obviously too soon for such talk, though it would not down. At least, with Taft, the G.O.P. would be able-in fact forced -to make a frontal attack on all those issues which were slicked over and evaded...
Another remedy might be reciprocity with the U.S., and, if the U.S. is willing, free trade across the border. Canadians rejected wide reciprocity when U.S. President William Howard Taft proposed it in 1911. They feared it would lead to a customs union, the destruction of Canadian industries and the ultimate loss of Canadian independence. They would be wary of it today for the same reasons...