Bill McCollum
Florida Attorney General, former Republican
B. Carroll Reece
United States Army officer (1889-1961)
Brazilla Carroll Reecewas an American Republican Party politician from Tennessee. He represented eastern Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives for all but six years from 1921 to 1961 and served as the Chair of the Republican National Committee from 1946 to 1948.
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About the B. Carroll Reece
Brazilla Carroll Reecewas an American Republican Party politician from Tennessee. He represented eastern Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives for all but six years from 1921 to 1961 and served as the Chair of the Republican National Committee from 1946 to 1948. A conservative, he led the party’s Old Right wing alongside Robert A. Taft in crusading against interventionism, communism, and the liberal policies pursued by the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.
From 1953 to 1954, as chairman of the House Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations, often called the Reece Committee, he led an investigation of Communist activities by non-profit organizations, particularly educational institutions and charitable foundations. The Reece Committee concluded that foundations were actively embroiled in efforts to promote socialist and collectivist ideologies.
6 Quotes by B. Carroll Reece
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
B. Carroll ReeceUnited States Army officer (1889-1961)
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We approach closer and closer to socialism.
B. Carroll ReeceUnited States Army officer (1889-1961)
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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
B. Carroll ReeceUnited States Army officer (1889-1961)
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll ReeceUnited States Army officer (1889-1961)
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll ReeceUnited States Army officer (1889-1961)
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In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
B. Carroll ReeceUnited States Army officer (1889-1961)