FIGHTING BOB FIGHTS ON ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE'S LEGACY AT 150.(FIGHTING BOB FIGHTS ON)

From: The Capital Times | Date: June 14, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: John Nichols

On March 25, 1921, at the age of sixty-five, Robert M. La Follette Sr. took the greatest risk of his long political career. Four years after he chose to lead the Congressional opposition to World War I, La Follette was still condemned in Washington and in his native state of Wisconsin as a traitor or-at best-an old man whose political instincts had finally failed him. But La Follette was not ready to surrender the U.S. Senate seat he had held since leaving Wisconsin's governorship in 1906. He wanted to return to Washington to do battle once more against ...

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