“About this whole judgment there is the spirit of vengeance, and vengeance is seldom justice. The hanging of the eleven men convicted will be a blot on the American record which we shall long regret”

—  Robert A. Taft

Profiles in Courage, Kennedy, p. 191.

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politician from the United States, son of 27th US President… 1889–1953

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