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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
— B. Carroll Reece
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B. Carroll Reece
politician, jurist, banker
1889 – 1961
Brazilla Carroll Reece was 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 Progressive policies pursued by the Roosevelt and Truman administrations.