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==Spreading his conservative message==
==Spreading his conservative message==
Thereafter, Smoot published his weekly syndicated ''The Dan Smoot Report,'' a 15-minute broadcast aired on weekends on selected stations. He also carried his conservative message via. [[radio]]. One issue of the report was devoted to a mental health bill in [[Alaska]] in 1956, prior to statehood. Smoot claimed the Alaska bill was a communist conspiracy to establish concentration camps on American soil. Upon the death in the spring of 1964, Smoot lionized [[Douglas MacArthur]] and his call, "There Is No Substitute for Victory."
Thereafter, Smoot published his weekly syndicated ''The Dan Smoot Report,'' a 15-minute broadcast aired on weekends on selected stations. He also carried his conservative message via. [[radio]]. One issue of the report was devoted to a mental health bill in [[Alaska]] in 1956, prior to statehood. Smoot claimed the Alaska bill was a communist conspiracy to establish concentration camps on American soil. Upon the death in the spring of 1964, Smoot lionized [[Douglas MacArthur]] and the general's tenet, "There Is No Substitute for Victory."
A subsequent 1964 issue opposed a proposal by [[U.S. President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] to transfer sovereignty of the [[Panama Canal]] to the Republic of [[Panama]]. Johnson failed in his attempt, but President [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1978, with bipartisan U. S. Senate support led by [[Moderate Republican]] [[Howard Baker]] of [[Tennessee]], prevailed by a one-vote margin to extend control of the Canal Zone to Panama. It was Moderate Republican support for many Democratic proposals that particularly angered Smoot, who gave up on the national [[Republican Party]] as a viable alternative to the majority Democrats of his day.
A subsequent 1964 issue opposed a proposal by [[U.S. President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] to transfer sovereignty of the [[Panama Canal]] to the Republic of [[Panama]]. Johnson failed in his attempt, but President [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1978, with bipartisan U. S. Senate support led by [[Moderate Republican]] [[Howard Baker]] of [[Tennessee]], prevailed by a one-vote margin to extend control of the Canal Zone to Panama. It was Moderate Republican support for many Democratic proposals that particularly angered Smoot, who gave up on the national [[Republican Party]] as a viable alternative to the majority Democrats of his day.