Taft condemned the postwar Nuremberg Trials as victor's justice under ex post facto laws, in which the people who won the war were the prosecutors, the judges, and the alleged victims – all at the same time.

Over 10, 000 people wrote tributes to Hammond, including: Hearst whose father gave him his first job, Woolf Barnato whose father ( Barney Barnato ) took him to South Africa, Sir Lionel Phillips who was condemned to death with him, the Guggenheims who employed him at a fabulous salary, former President Taft who offered him an ambassador position, and President Calvin Coolidge who consulted with him on the coal situation.

Taft, in keeping with his personal judicial philosophy, suggests that Congress may " of course " extend such protections to telephone conversations by passing direct legislation that would prohibit their use in federal criminal trials.

Taft writes that the aggregate outcome of the Weeks case and those that followed it was that the Fourth Amendment forbade the introduction of evidence in court if it had been obtained in violation of the amendment.

Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents ( along with William Howard Taft ) to have been elected without previous electoral experience or high military rank.

The resulting Payne-Aldrich tariff of 1909 was too high for most reformers, but instead of blaming this on Senator Nelson Aldrich and big business, Taft took credit, calling it the best tariff ever.

His famous speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, in August 1910 was the most radical of his career and openly marked his break with the Taft administration and the conservative Republicans.

Roosevelt was attacking both the judiciary and the deep faith Republicans had in their judges ( most of whom had been appointed by McKinley, Roosevelt or Taft ).

In 1911, Taft responded with a vigorous stumping tour that allowed him to sign up most of the party leaders long before Roosevelt announced.

Roosevelt, however, had delayed too long, and Taft had already won the support of most party leaders in the country.

While Roosevelt was popular with the public, most Republican politicians and party leaders supported Taft, and their support proved difficult to counter in states without primaries.

But, Taft conceded, with his extensive involvement as the most prominent member of the cabinet, that he was the most " available " man ; thus he agreed that were he to be nominated for president, he would put his personal convictions aside and run a vigorous campaign.

Despite the difference in styles, Taft had demonstrated for the most part that the substance of his policies echoed those of Roosevelt.

On the second and third ballots Dewey's support dwindled, as his delegates went to either Taft or Willkie, with most favoring Willkie.

Taft had two major weaknesses: he was a plodding, dull campaigner, and he was viewed by most party leaders as being too conservative and controversial to win a presidential election.

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.

Dewey became the leader of moderate-to-liberal Republicans, who were based in the northeastern and Pacific Coast states, while Taft became the leader of conservative Republicans who dominated most of the Midwest and parts of the South.

It also had the fifty-sixth most Haitians in the US, at 2. 50 % ( tied with five other areas in the US, including Plantation and Taft, FL ,) while it had the twentieth highest percentage of Nicaraguans, at 2. 20 % of all residents.

Included among De Leon's most distinguished citizens are former Texas Speaker of the House and later Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, a protégé of John B. Connally and Lyndon B. Johnson, and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner William White, whose The Taft Story focuses upon Republican presidential contender Robert A. Taft.

During the Progressive Era ( 1890s – 1920s ), Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson instituted regulation on parts of the American economy, most notably in regulating big business and industry.

The Taft Oval Office had simple Georgian Revival trim, and was likely the most colorful in history ; the walls were covered in a vibrant seagrass green.

Some of the most prominent figures hosted in Oak View were President and future Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft and President Calvin Coolidge.

Around the same time, Viacom bought out Spelling Entertainment, incorporating its library into that of Paramount itself ( in a twist of irony, Spelling's holdings contained most of the programming assets once owned by Taft, which, as mentioned before, owned the theme parks and some of the TV stations that were later acquired by Paramount ; additionally, CBS had owned a former Taft station that TVX intended to keep, WFOR-TV-formerly WCIX-in Miami, but would be sold to the network instead in 1988 ).

Taft was a product of one of America's most prominent political families.

Taft promoted a different progressivism, one that stressed the rule of law and preferred that judges rather than administrators or politicians make the basic decisions about fairness.

Roosevelt made the basic policy decisions regarding military affairs, using Taft as a well-traveled spokesman who campaigned for Roosevelt's reelection in 1904.

Decrying the effect of the Wagner Act in tilting the balance toward labor unions, he wrote the 1947 Taft – Hartley Act, which remains the basic labor law.

Taft commented as follows on the state of his party after the election, "... it behooves the Republicans to gather again to the party standard and pledge anew their faith in their party's principles and to organize again to defend the constitutional government handed down to us by our fathers.

The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and became law by overcoming U. S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947 ; labor leaders called it the " slave-labor bill " while President Truman argued that it was a " dangerous intrusion on free speech ," and that it would " conflict with important principles of our democratic society ," Nevertheless, Truman would subsequently use it twelve times during his presidency.

Above the statue is inscribed, " This Memorial to Robert A. Taft, presented by the people to the Congress of the United States, stands as a tribute to the honesty, indomitable courage, and high principles of free government symbolized by his life.

* 1899 – Ezra Taft Benson, American missionary and politician, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( d. 1994 )

Madero successfully imported arms from the United States, with the American government under William Howard Taft doing little to halt the flow of arms to the Mexican revolutionaries.

* 1857 – William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President of the United States ( d. 1930 )

* 1889 – Robert Taft, American politician ( d. 1953 )

A year before, Turner's companies purchased Hanna-Barbera Productions ( whose longtime parent, Taft / Great American Broadcasting, had been headquartered in Turner's original hometown of Cincinnati ), adding additional content.

In surveys of presidential scholars, Taft is usually ranked near the middle of lists of all American Presidents.

In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft chairman of a commission to organize a civilian government in the Philippines which had been ceded to the United States by Spain following the Spanish – American War and the 1898 Treaty of Paris.

Taft met with and publicly endorsed Booker T. Washington's program for uplifting the African American race, advising them to stay out of politics at the time and emphasize education and entrepreneurship.

Taft won a mere eight electoral votes, in Utah and Vermont, making it the worst defeat in American history of an incumbent President seeking reelection.

For instance, the residents of Camp Skagway Number One included: William Howard Taft, who went on to become a U. S. President ; Frederick Russell Burnham, the celebrated American scout who arrived from Africa only to be called back to take part in the Second Boer War ; and W. W. White, author and explorer.

The German Army's rapid blitz into France in May 1940 shook American public opinion, even as Taft was telling a Kansas audience that America needed to concentrate on domestic issues to prevent Roosevelt from using the war crisis to extend socialism at home.

Taft called for abolishing many New Deal welfare programs, which he felt were harmful to business interests, and he was skeptical of American involvement in foreign alliances such as the United Nations.

" President William Howard Taft used the Act to split the American Tobacco Company.

Commission president William H. Taft – who was then Chief Justice of the United States – dedicated the Memorial on May 30, 1922 and presented it to President Warren G. Harding, who accepted it on behalf of the American people.

The racial makeup of South Taft was 1, 404 ( 64. 7 %) White, 21 ( 1. 0 %) African American, 55 ( 2. 5 %) Native American, 5 ( 0. 2 %) Asian, 11 ( 0. 5 %) Pacific Islander, 596 ( 27. 5 %) from other races, and 77 ( 3. 6 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Taft was 7, 388 ( 79. 2 %) White, 396 ( 4. 2 %) African American, 118 ( 1. 3 %) Native American, 93 ( 1. 0 %) Asian, 65 ( 0. 7 %) Pacific Islander, 1, 023 ( 11. 0 %) from other races, and 244 ( 2. 6 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Taft Heights was 1, 602 ( 82. 2 %) White, 15 ( 0. 8 %) African American, 35 ( 1. 8 %) Native American, 11 ( 0. 6 %) Asian, 0 ( 0. 0 %) Pacific Islander, 220 ( 11. 3 %) from other races, and 66 ( 3. 4 %) from two or more races.

The racial makeup of Taft Mosswood was 443 ( 29. 0 %) White, 192 ( 12. 5 %) African American, 10 ( 0. 7 %) Native American, 183 ( 12. 0 %) Asian, 1 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 617 ( 40. 3 %) from other races, and 84 ( 5. 5 %) from two or more races.

) The Taft family became an American political dynasty, especially in Ohio, but also in Iowa, Rhode Island, Vermont, and other states.

* The Taft family, a prominent American political family

Upton was home to a number of members of the Taft family, including an American Revolutionary War soldier named Samuel Taft, who was born there.