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Issues › Defense & Military
Naval arms and disarmament
| Cycle | Candidate | Position | Solution | Strength | Attribution | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) | International agreements for the reduction of armaments | Pursue international agreements to reduce armaments. | directional_stance | party_platform | broken |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover (Republican) | Cut world armaments by one-third through the Geneva conference while keeping forces strong enough that 'no foreign soldier will land' | Press the Geneva proposal to reduce armaments a third and shift weapons toward defense, saving the world $1 billion and the United States $200 million a year; maintain the London Naval Treaty ratios; do not reduce Army a… | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | not_applicable |