November 24th, 2009
Forgotten Warrior..
As our current President decides to send more troops into Afghanistan, we should look back to a man who few know, but someone who played a vital role in the growth of our country.
Most of this is right of Wikipedia:
He is best remembered as a proponent of progressivism and a vocal opponent of railroad trusts, bossism, World War I, and the League of Nations. In 1957, a Senate committee selected La Follette as one of their five greatest Senate predecessors. A 1982 survey of historians that asked them to rank the “ten greatest Senators in the nation’s history” based on “accomplishments in office” and “long range impact on American history,” placed him first, tied with Henry Clay.
