HIRAM JOHNSON
(Hiram Warren Johnson)
Theodore Roosevelt was the Presidential nominee. See {634097} and {585962}--Samuel Johnson, for a 1758 version of this idea.
Theodore Roosevelt was the Presidential nominee
Theodore Roosevelt was the Presidential nominee
Theodore Roosevelt was the Presidential nominee. Johnson was a leader of some members of Congress some of whom were extreme isolationists and some of whom were Nazi sympathizers and Hitler admirers. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor later that year, Germany, fulfilling its treaty with Japan, declared war on America, Johnson’s group no longer mattered. Before WWII most Republicans were opposed to Defense Spending and accused the Democrats of being war hawks. After WWII, they flip flopped and became more hawkish than the Democrats who they accused of being soft on defense for years thereafter. See {631380} for President Roosevelt’s different view.
Theodore Roosevelt was the Presidential nominee. Wendell Wilkie, 1892-1944, Republican candidate for President (IN), was perhaps the nation’s greatest proponent of bipartisanship. Despite the fact that he ran against FDR in 1940 and was a staunch Republican, for him the danger of Hitler and the Fascists was a problem that all Americans needed to do something about. He proceeded to lead many Republicans and independents to Support of President Roosevelt, aid to England, and preparedness for war and the military draft. His support overcame the more conservative Republicans who were isolationists and some were admirers of Hitler.
Hiram Warren Johnson was an American attorney and politician who served as the 23rd governor of California from 1911 to 1917. Johnson achieved national prominence in the early 20th century, and he later served as the United States Senator from California between 1917 and 1945.
