The only U.S. politician to vote against war with Japan 75 years ago was this remarkable woman

The day after Japan launched its brazen, epoch-defining assault on Pearl Harbor, American legislators voted for war almost unanimously. There was only one congressional dissenter: Jeannette Rankin, a Montana Republican and a committed pacifist who had also voted against World War I. When her turn came on Dec. 8, 1941, Rankin stood amid a chorus of boos and hisses and said: “As […]

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