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Taft met with the Emperor of Japan who alerted him of the probability of war with Russia.
In 1905, Taft met with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Tarō.
Some months later Wilson met with Taft ( Knox was out of town on vacation ), and upon hearing the information, the President immediately and unilaterally ordered a mobilization of 25, 000 troops to the Mexican border as well as naval maneuvers in the Gulf of Mexico.
Wood was named Army Chief of Staff in 1910 by President Taft, whom he had met while both were in the Philippines ; he remains the only medical officer to have ever held that position.
The following year, Douglas met and married Emily Taft Douglas, daughter of sculptor Lorado Taft and distant cousin of former President William Howard Taft.
Two years later, she met William Howard Taft at a bobsledding party in Cincinnati ; he was 22 years old, she was 18.
Takamine and Midzuno met with the Helen Taft, who accepted the offer.
Through Root he also met Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.
He then attended Taft High School, where he met the rest of Bad Religion.
He served as interpreter when Presidents Porfirio Díaz and William Howard Taft met in 1909 on the international bridge between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso.

Taft and with
Senator Taft assisted the President greatly in working with the Old Guard, and was sorely missed when his death left Eisenhower with his successor William Knowland, whom Eisenhower disliked.
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.
The Taft Administration saw the huge Honduran debt, over $ 120 miilion, as a contributing factor to this instability and began efforts to refinance the largely British debt with provisions for a United States customs receivership or some similar arrangement.
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.
Attending dignitaries included President William Howard Taft, along with representatives from France, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Every president since Taft, except for Jimmy Carter, threw out at least one ceremonial first ball or pitch for Opening Day, the All-Star Game, or the World Series, usually with much fanfare.
On his return in 1910 he broke bitterly with President Taft on issues of progressivism and personalities.
Taft ignored the risks and tackled the tariff boldly, on the one hand encouraging reformers to fight for lower rates, and then cutting deals with conservative leaders that kept overall rates high.
Conservationists sided with Pinchot, and Taft alienated yet another vocal constituency.
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.
In 1911, Taft responded with a vigorous stumping tour that allowed him to sign up most of the party leaders long before Roosevelt announced.
After he finally broke with Taft, Roosevelt saw himself as the only person who could save the Republican party from defeat in the upcoming Presidential election and announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination.
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.
* Lincoln City, Oregon was formed in 1965 by merging the extant seaside towns of Oceanlake, Delake, and Taft, with the adjoining unincorporated areas of Nelscott and Cutler City.
Along with his judgeship, between 1896 and 1900 Taft also served as the first dean and a professor of constitutional law at the University of Cincinnati.
From 1901 to 1903, Taft served as the first civilian Governor-General of the Philippines, a position in which he was very popular with both Americans and Filipinos.
In 1902, Taft visited Rome to negotiate with Pope Leo XIII for the purchase of Philippine lands owned by the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1906, President Roosevelt sent troops to restore order in Cuba during the revolt led by General Enrique Loynaz del Castillo, and Taft temporarily became the Civil Governor of Cuba, personally negotiating with Castillo for a peaceful end to the revolt.
He gave Taft more responsibilities along with the Philippines and the Panama Canal.
Taft promoted a reduction in the tariffs on sugar and tobacco in the Philippines, a position with which Roosevelt disagreed ; Taft offered to resign but this was refused by Roosevelt.

Taft and publicly
Taft publicly directed that no intervention of troops into Mexico was to occur without Congressional authorization.
President William Howard Taft of the US then wrote publicly to the Diamond Match Company asking them to release the patent for the good of mankind, which they did in 1911.
Political rhetoric made it a party issue: the Conservative party, which stood publicly for nationalism and protectionism (" the National Policy "), succeeded in associating the Liberals with free trade, commercial union with the U. S., and continentalism, which smacked of absorption by the U. S. In 1911 the Liberal government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier succeeded in signing a reciprocity treaty with American president William Howard Taft.
" Despite her interest in music, Carpenter never considered performing publicly until, shortly after graduating from Taft, her father suggested that she perform at a local open-mike bar, a stressful experience for the shy Carpenter, who recalled, " I thought I was going to barf.
Alice publicly supported her father's 1912 Bull Moose presidential candidacy, while Nicholas Longworth stayed loyal to his mentor, President Taft.

Taft and endorsed
In 1872, it supported Horace Greeley, a former Republican Party newspaper editor, and in 1912 the paper endorsed Theodore Roosevelt, who ran on the Progressive Party slate against Republican President William Howard Taft.
As part of the Illinois delegation of the 1952 Republican convention, Schlafly endorsed Robert Taft to be the party nominee for the presidential election.
The Court endorsed the rule of reason enunciated by William Howard Taft in Addyston Pipe and Steel Company v. United States, 85 F. 271 ( 6th Cir.

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Other descendants were Ezra T. Benson and his grandson, Ezra Taft Benson, former Secretary of Agriculture under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, later 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The hotel was a frequent site of movie, music video, and television filming, having been a location for movies and television programs such as The Graduate ( where it was called the Taft Hotel ), Pretty Woman, L. A. Story, The Wedding Singer, Apollo 13, Hoffa, Beaches, True Romance, Angel, Beverly Hills, 90210, Scream 2, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Catch Me If You Can, Crazy, The Mask, Without You I'm Nothing, Forrest Gump, Crazy in Alabama, S. W. A. T., D. E. B. S., The Best Man, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
After 1945, Villard made common cause with " old right " conservatives, such as Senator Robert A. Taft, Felix Morley, and John T. Flynn, against the Cold War policies of Harry S. Truman.
That year, Blackwell considered a run for governor, but Ohio Republican Party chairman Robert T. Bennett persuaded Blackwell to run for secretary of state instead, leaving the governorship open to Bob Taft.
" Following the resignation of Joseph T. Deters as state treasurer, Taft appointed Bradley to the post, effective January 2005.
Ezra Taft Benson ( February 22, 1811 – September 3, 1869 ) ( commonly referred to as Ezra T. Benson to distinguish him from his great-grandson of the same name ) was as an apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).
To the east of the boulevard, the park is bounded by Taft Avenue, Padre Burgos Drive and T. M.
* Paul T. Deignan ( Commercial lawyer and Senior Partner of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, Indiana )
Seth and Franny Taft have three sons: Frederick I. Taft, Thomas P. Taft, and Seth T. Taft.

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