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In his first term Roosevelt worked closely with isolationist progressives such as Senators Robert La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin, Hiram Johnson of California, George Norris of Nebraska, and Burton K. Wheeler of Montana. Other influential isolationists in the Senate included William E. Borah of Idaho, Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, and Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan. During his second term Roosevelt gradually broke with the isolationists as international tensions rose. In October 1937 Roosevelt's famous quarantine speech — which called for international cooperation in bringing unspecified economic and diplomatic pressure to bear on aggressor nations — irritated the isolationists. Beginning in 1937 they increasingly, and sometimes angrily, turned against the president. After France fell to Germany in 1940, however, isolationists were forced to rethink their position.
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