Taft

In private they were less tactful. Taft dismissed him as "a peace crank" ; Roosevelt viewed him with "contemptuous abhorrence" .

Taft had been close to the reformers, especially to his Rockefeller-oriented friend Nelson Aldrich, since 1900.

It would be unkind to say that Taft took the presidency under false pretense .

They quarrel with Taft over the terms of a bill to strengthen the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

It's been a hundred years since President Taft signed the legislation creating Glacier National Park in Montana.

Roosevelt by the end of May was privately boasting that he had prevented his own renomination and could dictate the naming of Taft.

Just before his death in 1930, Taft made an interesting comment about his life. He said, "I don't remember that I was ever President. "

Jenny had just sat looking at her client, Michael Taft, for a moment.

So enthusiastic was the popular response that he was catapulted into leadership of the rebellion against Taft and the Odd Guard.

Such a measure passed Congress in 1913 and again in 1915 only to be nullified by the votes of Presidents Taft and Wilson.

Taft. "How could our silly John fall in love with such a girl? " Mrs. Taft was surprised.

A few of the people who did eventually read my first novel came to hear me when I went out with my second novel, Taft.

From the standpoint of the weather it was the worst day since President Taft took the oath of office in 1909 after a blizzard.

William Howard Taft was the first serious golfer in the White House.

Acts requiring literacy tests passed Congress, but President Grover Cleveland, and later President William Howard Taft, vetoed them.

President William Howard Taft began the tradition, also in a game between Washington and Philadelphia.

There were those like Senator Robert Taft, a leading Republican in his day, who opposed American membership of NATO.

Sergeant Taft was not only high on the drinks but feeling game for a lay, so we both took off for the motel.

Conservatives, generally, were sure that Taft would align himself with the Old Guard in Congress.

Taft was secretly pleased that he had lost, and he left Washington in good humor.

By 1908 both Roosevelt and Taft had come out squarely for graduated federal estate, gift, and income taxes.

The historian must conclude that, on the whole, Taft's record in foreign affairs was even more barren than in domestic politics.

After the Winona address, Midwesterners were certain that Taft had deserted to the Old Guard .

Taft continued stubbornly to defend him and thus exacerbated popular discontent.

Taft, United States president and chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

"Once they approve it, it becomes legally binding, " says Kelly Taft, MAG spokeswoman.

When William Howard Taft, tipping the scales at over 300 pounds, was elected president, it gave the term a whole new meaning.

Dean Potter's most recent solo walk at Taft Point in Yosemite by Photographer Jeff Cunningham.

Taft became the twenty-seventh President by winning easily over his opponent in 1908.

In response, President Taft, in the summer of 1909, requested Attorney General George W. Wickersham to prepare a new railroad bill.

In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft to organize a civilian government in the Philippines.

Taft embarked in September 1909 upon a 13, 000-mile speaking tour from Boston to the West Coast to assuage the popular discontent.

In 1912 President William H. Taft made the first official provision for the arrangement of the stars.

Eisenhower became President in 1953 and appointed Ezra Taft Benson as his Secretary of Agriculture.

The younger Taft would eventually fill the same position.

Republican leaders such as Senator Robert Taft and Congressman Richard Nixon agreed, and Congress approved President Harry Truman's war tax.

A civilian administration, headed by William Howard Taft as civil governor, supplanted military rule on July 4, 1901.

Taft Tower Hotel is 45 minutes drive from Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

Taft, Aldrich and Cannon conferred in March 1910 and formulated a plan of attack.

Later, from 1921 until 1930, Taft served his country as chief justice of the Supreme Court.

President William Howard Taft weighed 350 pounds.

Mrs. Taft? -. . . for the Federal workers, so that's a hundred years ago. -Wow.

Taft was elected president in 1908, serving one term.

Unhappily , Taft was temperamentally unfitted to play the role that history demanded .

Taft, who stood about 6 feet (180 centimeters) tall and weighed more than 300 pounds (136 kilograms).

The Commission on Economy and Efficiency, the Taft Commission