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To: carranza2 who wrote (11930)	9/29/2008 5:51:38 PM
From: Oblomov	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71479

>>Neglected by history, Eisenhower was in many ways a visionary. Neglected by history? Really? One of my own heroes of 20th century politics was Senator Robert A. Taft, indeed neglected by history, who ran against Dewey in the 1948 GOP primary and Eisenhower in the 1952 primary. He criticized the Nuremburg trials for being untrue to our ideals thusly: I question whether the hanging of those, who, however despicable, were the leaders of the German people, will ever discourage the making of aggressive war, for no one makes aggressive war unless he expects to win. About this whole judgment there is the spirit of vengeance, and vengeance is seldom justice. The hanging of the eleven men convicted will be a blot on the American record which we shall long regret. In these trials we have accepted the Russian idea of the purpose of trials---government policy and not justice-with little relation to Anglo-Saxon heritage. By clothing policy in the forms of legal procedure, we may discredit the whole idea of justice in Europe for years to come. In the last analysis, even at the end of a frightful war, we should view the future with more hope if even our enemies believed that we had treated them justly in our English-speaking concept of law, in the provision of relief and in the final disposal of territory. He was of course roundly criticized for expressing these views. For this stalwart defense of Western ideals, John F. Kennedy devoted a chapter to him in his book, Profiles in Courage. More on Taft's foreign policy vision here: independent.org Taft also was the author of the 1946 Civil Rights Act, which went down in flames due to a lack of support from FDR and the Democratic Congress. The gist of the 1946 Act was finally passed, more or less, in 1965...