In 1952, the Republican Party faced a stark and fateful choice. Senator Robert Taft of Ohio ran for president advocating an agenda that rejected much of what had happened in the country over the previous two decades. His campaign was the last gasp of the Old Right that had risen during the 1930s in angry defiance of the New Deal. The Democrats, led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, vastly expanded the size and scope of the federal government in respo
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