Addison Smith, Republican from Idaho, invoked Scandinavian, English, Irish, and other northern- European immigrants of his district, highlighting that among them were no  'slackers of the type to be found in the cities of East. ..…

Truman was famously advised by Republican senator Arthur Vandenburg that securing public and congressional support for unprecedented and costly peacetime intervention into European affairs entailed “scaring the hell out of the American people.” ..…