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A Senator from this family objected to Executive Order 9066 but eventually allowed its passage. The final chapter of Profiles in Courage details legal opposition to the Nuremberg Trials by a member of this family, (15[2])which sank his 1948 presidential bid. Arthur Schlesinger (15[1])derided the isolationist policy of a member of this family nicknamed “Mr. Republican,” who also sponsored legislation that restricted labor union actions like banning (*) “closed shops.” A civilian governor of the Philippines from this family later became the first sitting President to meet with Porfirio Díaz in Mexico; he served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the 1920s. For 10 points, “dollar diplomacy” was used by a President from what family who succeeded Theodore Roosevelt? ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Taft family [accept William Howard Taft; accept Robert Alphonso Taft, Sr.; accept Taft–Hartley Act]
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