Pinchot alleged that Taft's Secretary of Interior Richard Ballinger was in league with big timber interests.

In the 1910 Congressional elections, Democrats swept to power, and Taft's reelection in 1912 was increasingly in doubt.

Despite his new doubts about Taft's leadership abilities, Roosevelt still was friendly towards him and was in favor of his re-election.

At the Republican Convention in Chicago, despite being the incumbent, Taft's victory was not immediately assured.

This decision was one among many in Taft's career which demonstrated a compulsive dedication to the job at hand, without regard to his self-interest.

Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio, seeking Taft's support in his senatorial re-election, made an appearance with Taft, creating the impression Taft was allied with the big business trusts.

" Taft's general opinion on the other hand was that " the President can exercise no power which cannot fairly be traced to some specific grant of power in the Constitution or act of Congress.

Taft's overriding concern in making most appointments, however, was ability and experience, not party or faction alignment.

Another of Taft's goals was the furtherance of world peace.

In the 1911 Congressional session Taft's most potentially notable achievement was approval of a reciprocity agreement with Canada which proposed to drastically lower trade barriers.

At the Republican Convention Dewey was verbally attacked by pro-Taft delegates and speakers as the real power behind Eisenhower, but he had the satisfaction of seeing Eisenhower win the nomination and end Taft's presidential hopes for the last time.

When the Republicans in 1964 gave Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Taft's successor as the conservative leader, their presidential nomination, Dewey declined to even attend the GOP Convention in San Francisco ; it was the first Republican Convention he had missed since 1936.

In 1948 and 1952 Reece was a leading supporter of Taft's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination ; however, Taft lost the nomination both times to moderate Republicans from New York.

Taft's younger brother Horace Taft was best man.

As Taft's Ambassador to Mexico, fearing the leftist tendencies of the new Madero government upon the ouster of Diaz ( not to mention the fact that he considered Madero a ' lunatic '), he assumed the role of catalyst for the plot of General Victoriano Huerta, Felix Diaz, and General Bernardo Reyes against President Madero, and was purported to have assisted in arranging the murder of Madero and his vice-president, José María Pino Suárez, during La decena tragica ( The Ten Tragic Days ) in February 1913, a point that was later disputed by Wilson.

Clark's Speakership was notable for two things: First, Clark's skill from 1910 to 1914 in maintaining party unity to block William Howard Taft's legislation and then pass Wilson's ; and second, Clark's splitting of the party in 1917 and 1918 when he opposed Wilson's decision to bring the United States into World War I.

In the American Inquiry, Bride was also questioned about ignoring requests for information, while on the Carpathia, from the press and the U. S. Navy, which wanted to know the fate of President Taft's personal friend and aide, Archibald Butt.

From Taft's departure on February 3, 1930 until Hughes took office on February 24, 1930, Holmes was briefly Acting Chief Justice under 36 Stat.

On April 8, the day after Taft's letter, Dr. Jokichi Takamine, the Japanese chemist famous as the discoverer of adrenaline and takadiastase, was in Washington with Midzuno, the Japanese consul in New York City.

Counter-criticism against Taft's statements was vital to his failure to secure the Republican nomination for President in 1948.

The dedication was attended by members of the Chicago City Council, the Union League Clug and Taft's granddaughter.

President Taft's grandfather was born in Uxbridge.

According to biographer Anderson, contrary to the belief of Roosevelt and other allies, Taft's role as Governor-General in the Philippines did not serve to equip him with the political skills essential for the White House.

( The following year White accepted Taft's appointment to head a delegation to the Pan-American Conference in Buenos Aires.

The U. S. House election, 1910 was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1910 which occurred in the middle of President William Howard Taft's term.

A large majority in Congress agreed with the need for reform, but both the Senate and the House of Representatives insisted on revising Taft's proposals so that they conformed more closely to the traditions of the federal judiciary.

Taft's efforts in stumping for the party in the 1906 mid-term elections made him aware of his deficiencies as an effective campaigner.

Taft's obsession with the law over politics created more trouble for him in the well noted dispute between his Interior Secretary, Richard Achilles Ballinger, and the Chief of the Forestry Service, Gifford Pinchot.

Stassen believed that if he could defeat Taft in his home state, Taft would be forced to quit the race and most of Taft's delegates would support him instead of Dewey.

Taft's frequent lecture tours for the Chautauqua also gave him a broad, popular celebrity status in this period.

Butt continued to serve as a social functionary for Taft, but he also proved to have strong negotiating skills and a good head for numbers, which enabled him to become Taft's de facto chief negotiator on federal budget issues.

Butt's housemate and friend Francis Davis Millet ( himself one of Taft's circle ) asked Taft to give him a leave of absence to recuperate before the presidential primaries began.

Glavis met with the president at Taft's summer retreat in Beverly, Massachusetts, and presented him with a 50-page report accusing Ballinger of an improper interest in his handling of coal field claims in Alaska.

On July 29, the Toledo Blade reported on a 2001 e-mail from Taft's assistant Jon Allison complaining Schmidt was " bugging " him about setting up an Internet lottery for Cincinnati businessman Roger Ach, who gave her a $ 1, 000 contribution the next year.

The President reviewed the matter, then fired Glavis and Pinchot ; Ballinger also tendered his resignation, which would have further served to end the matter were it not for Taft's refusal to accept it.

Of Taft's appointment, Roosevelt said, " If only there were three of you ; I could appoint one of you to the Court, one to the War Department and one to the Philippines.

With Taft's appointment to the Supreme Court, Mrs. Taft became the only woman to be both First Lady and wife of a chief justice.

The end of Hoggatt's term as governor came on May 18, 1909 when he resigned to make way for President William Howard Taft's appointment of Walter Eli Clark.

The battle between William Howard Taft | Taft and Roosevelt bitterly split the Republican Party ; Taft's people dominated the party until 1936.

The resulting tariff rates in the Payne – Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 were too high for the progressives, based in part on Taft's campaign promises ; but instead of blaming the act's shortcomings on Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and big business, Taft claimed the responsibility, calling it the best bill to come from the Republican Party.

Taft's administration got a political boost after 25 western railroads announced an intent to raise rates by 20 %, and Taft responded, first with a threat to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act against them ; he then negotiated a settlement whereby they agreed to submit delayed rate requests to a new Interstate Commerce Commission having authority over rate requests.

Yet balanced against these achievements were: Taft's acceptance of a tariff with protective schedules that outraged progressive opinion ; his opposition to the entry of the state of Arizona into the Union because of its progressive constitution ; and his growing reliance on the conservative wing of his party.

2H ; " Taft's uninspired choice " ( editorial ).