Will Clayton claimed he did not work harder to thwart the Smoot-Hawley act because he thought the Republicans were “not stupid enough” to pass it.1
1Gregory Fossedal, Our Finest Hour (Hoover Institution Press, 1993), 59.
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3 comments
August 3, 2010 at 12:09 pm
Anderson
Like Arlen Specter voting for a bill on the theory that it was so obviously unconstitutional, the Supreme Court would strike it down.
I’m reassured that politicians have grown no worse over the years.
August 4, 2010 at 9:56 am
joel hanes
Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut.
Oh, rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.
And his reverent occiput.
Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,
Grit your molars and do your dut.,
Gird up your l–ns,
Smite h-p and th-gh,
We’ll all be Kansas
By and by.
Ogden Nash, Invocation, 1931
August 4, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Anderson
If I were a Senator Smoot, I’d oppose smut just so people didn’t automatically assume I was for it.