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Keep the United States out of war: true neutrality, take the profits out of war, no political commitments — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.58	1936	Alf Landon	Neutrality, arms embargoes and staying out of foreign wars	Promote peace by all honorable means; no League, no World Court, no plan that could involve the U.S. in a war it had no part in beginning
0.51	1932	Newton D. Baker	European war debts and reparations	Entry into the World Court and cancellation of the war debts (the record that made him 'politically unpopular')
0.50	1932	Herbert Hoover	Tariff levels	Maintain — and if necessary widen — the protective tariff; reject the Democratic 'competitive tariff for revenue'
0.49	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Adherence to the World Court	Adhere to the World Court; arbitration of disputes; consultation to enforce the Kellogg-Briand Pact
0.47	1936	Alf Landon	Executive reciprocal trade agreements (1934 Act)	Repeal the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act; return treaty power to the Senate and tariff-making to Congress
0.47	1932	Herbert Hoover	Naval arms and disarmament	Cut world armaments by one-third through the Geneva conference while keeping forces strong enough that 'no foreign soldier will land'
0.47	1936	Alf Landon	European war debts and reparations	Use every effort to collect the war debts due from foreign countries
0.45	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	European war debts and reparations	No cancellation of the war debts — make payment possible by restoring trade
0.45	1932	Herbert Hoover	European war debts and reparations	No cancellation of war debts; apply any annual payment to opening foreign markets for American farm products
0.45	1936	Alf Landon	Antitrust and concentration of economic power	Use the full power of the federal government to break up private monopolies and enforce the antitrust laws 'without fear or favor'
0.45	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Farm prices can be restored only by general recovery and markets — no production control, no subsidies; repeal Farm Board stabilization
0.44	1932	Herbert Hoover	Adherence to the World Court	Join the World Court with reservations; make the Kellogg-Briand Pact an instrument for consultation — but no commitments to use force
0.44	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Executive reciprocal trade agreements (1934 Act)	Continue the reciprocal trade agreements to lower barriers against American exports
0.43	1932	Herbert Hoover	National Prohibition	Resubmit the Eighteenth Amendment so each state may decide, with constitutional guarantees against the saloon and against interference with dry states; enforce the law meanwhile
0.43	1932	Herbert Hoover	Tariff levels	Unconditional most-favored-nation treatment; no reciprocal bargains or preferences
0.43	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Tariff levels	A "competitive" tariff set through a scientific Tariff Commission, with anti-log-rolling rules and a public counsel
0.43	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Benefits for disabled and service-connected veterans	Continue just treatment of war veterans and dependents
0.43	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	Government as a check on concentrated economic power — "individualism" redefined as equality of opportunity
0.43	1932	Norman Thomas	European war debts and reparations	Cancel the war debts (against cancellation of reparations) and raze the tariff wall
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Tariff levels	Revise the tariff downward through reciprocal trade agreements
0.42	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Right to organize and bargain collectively	Guard the worker's right to organize and bargain collectively
0.41	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Campaign finance and lobbying	Continuous publicity of political contributions; stronger Corrupt Practices Act; curb paid lobbies
0.41	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Raise staple farm prices by a tariff-equivalent benefit plus voluntary production control, at no cost to the Treasury
0.40	1932	Norman Thomas	Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans	Economic, political and legal equality for the Negro; a federal anti-lynching law; enforce the First Amendment
0.40	1932	Herbert Hoover	Tariff levels	Preserve the bipartisan Tariff Commission's flexible power to adjust rates without congressional log-rolling