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Home of the Brave
Dangerfield, George | February 11, 1956 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Profiles in Courage," by John F. Kennedy. The courage examined in this book is the courage of elected representatives to pit their own best judgment against the wishes of their colleagues, or their constituents or the weight of public opinion. The very nature of representative institutions makes this exercise of the freedom of conscience not only a dangerous but a delicate matter. Senator Kennedy would have been displaying courage above and beyond the call of duty. He draws his eight examples of political courage from the history of the Senate, beginning with John Quincy Adams' defection from the Federalists in 1807 and ending with Robert A. Taft's attack on the Nuremburg trials in 1948.

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LEGISLATORS -- United States; PROFILES in Courage (Book); KENNEDY, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; TAFT, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953; COURAGE; PUBLIC opinion
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