His long-term political career was hampered by his statement that the Nuremberg trials were "a blot on the American record which we shall long regret."
His long-term political career was hampered by his statement that the Nuremberg trials were "a blot on the American record which we shall long regret." He remains the last person ever eliminated from a major party's nomination race by a multiple-ballot poll of convention delegates. After World War II, he enlisted the support of Herbert Hoover to advocate "fortress America" and the "principle of the free hand," but his loss of the Presidential nomination at the 1952 convention was considered the deathknell of isolationism. For 10 points, name this Ohio senator, known as "Mr. Republican," who joined with New Jersey Representative Fred Hartley to draft a labor relations bill.
His long-term political career was hampered by his statement that the Nuremberg trials were "a blot on the American record which we shall long regret."
Robert Alphonso {Taft}