He like to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "We see across the dangers the great future. and we rejoice as a giant refreshed . . . the great victories are yet to be won. the greatest deeds yet to be done." Scoop came to the Congress in 1941. a year when the locomotive of history seemed wrenched from its tracks. In Europe. the ideals of the West were under siege. in America. isolationists warned against involvement. Scoop watched history unfold. He watched Norway. the country of his immigrant parents. fall to Hitler. He came to [some] conclusions about the world. And from then until the day he died. he rejected isolationism as an acceptable way for a great democracy to comport itself in the world.
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