In the United States, the administration of President William Howard Taft was progressive conservative and he described himself as " a believer in progressive conservatism " and President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared himself an advocate of " progressive conservatism ".

In 1908, he was offered the vice-presidential nomination by William Howard Taft, but he declined it to run again for Governor.

In defeating Taft for the nomination, it became necessary for Eisenhower to appease the right wing Old Guard of the Republican Party ; his selection of Richard M. Nixon as the Vice-President on the ticket was designed in part for that purpose.

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.

The plan encountered sharp opposition in Congress, mostly from the portion of the Republican Party led by Robert A. Taft that advocated a more isolationist policy and was weary of massive government spending.

He was fired in late-1974, when the station was sold to Taft Broadcasting.

The fictional Taft University, where Susan teaches, was also a primary setting for the Spenser novel Playmates, and the non-Spenser novel Love and Glory.

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.

While the crisis was building inside the Party, Roosevelt was touring Africa and Europe, to allow Taft to be his own man.

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.

Taft was deeply upset.

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 ).

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.

His family and supporters threw their support to Roosevelt's old military companion, General Leonard Wood, who was ultimately defeated by Taft supporter Warren G. Harding.

As a Democrat ( after his criminal indictment by the Taft Administration ), Watson was an ardent supporter of Roosevelt.

* 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.

Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded.

In 1912, Harding gave the nominating speech for incumbent President William Howard Taft, who would later serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during Harding's administration, at the embattled Republican National Convention in Chicago — before he completed his introduction, a fist fight ensued between the Taft supporters and the more progressive Roosevelt faction, but the speech was quite a personal success.

One of Harding's earlier decisions as President was the appointment of former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a position Taft had always coveted, more so than the Presidency.

William Howard Taft ( September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930 ) was the 27th President of the United States ( 1909 – 1913 ) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States ( 1921 – 1930 ).

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.

This appointment allowed Taft to remain involved in the Philippines and Roosevelt also assured Taft he would support his later appointment to the Court, while Taft agreed to support Roosevelt in the Presidential election of 1904.

Taft also had a disagreement with Roosevelt over the latter's conclusion of an executive agreement with the Dominican Republic, in lieu of what Taft thought should have been a treaty, requiring ratification by the Senate.

Taft also showed his political ineptness by choosing Frank Hitchcock to be Chairman of the Republican Party.

Taft, in fashioning his cabinet, showed also that he was not unwilling to depart to some degree from Roosevelt's progressivism ; he named an anti-progressive, Philander Chase Knox Secretary of State, who had primary influence over other appointments.

But his devotion to the law also often made Taft a slave to precedent, and less adroit in politics than Roosevelt ; he therefore lacked the flexibility, creativity and personal magnetism of his mentor, not to mention the publicity devices, the dedicated supporters, and the broad base of public support that made Roosevelt so formidable.

The business community and the conservative wing of the party were also alienated from Taft and contributions to the GOP dried up.

" Taft also responded to criticism from party leaders, saying, " I do not give a tinker's damn whether it injures my political prospects or not.

Supported by President William Howard Taft, the law also expanded on the powers granted to the ICC in the 1906 Hepburn Act.

Jennings is alerted to Taft's activities and orders that Taft be also removed.

This law was urged by Chief Justice William Howard Taft, and it also reorganized many other things in the federal court system.

During his House tenure, he also expressed his support for price controls, a higher minimum wage, the Marshall Plan, and aid to Turkey and Greece ; he opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Taft – Hartley Act, and the Twenty-second Amendment.

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.

Also on that journey were several families who remained in the still raw settlement that would become Chicago, including that of Dexter Graves who is memorialized in Graceland Cemetery by the well-known Lorado Taft statue " Eternal Silence " ( also known as " the Dexter Graves Monument ").

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

President William Howard Taft was a descendant and also was a descendant of George Aldrich.

He also lost to Woodrow Wilson, and William H. Taft.

Taft, often called the " Friendliest Cotton-Pickin ' Town in Texas ", is not only rich in cotton, but also gas and oil resources.

Petrillo also organized a second recording ban in 1948 ( from January 1 to December 14 ), in response to the Taft – Hartley Act.

Memorial services were also held for presidents Warren G. Harding, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S Truman, and Richard M. Nixon.

Taft attended Woodward High School in Cincinnati, and laid the cornerstone of the new Woodward High School, now the site of the School for Creative and Performing Arts ( SCPA ).

It was the original site of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, which served Taft, Killona, and Hahnville.

The first " high-rise " building at Hollywood and Vine was the 12-story Taft Building, built in 1923 on the southeast corner on the site of the old Memorial Church.

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.

In 1921, the school was moved to its present site on Taft Avenue.

However, when the Taft Broadcasting Company of Cincinnati, Ohio began building Kings Island Amusement Park in nearby Mason, Ohio, less than a 2-hour drive from Parker's site, financing for Parker's venture dried up.

In 1913, ground was broken by President William Howard Taft for a proposed National American Indian Memorial that was to be built on the site of Fort Tompkins.

Today on Interstate 90 the site is noted by an exit marked Taft Area.

Taft responded by buying Coney Island outright in 1969, and construction began the following year on the new site located in Deerfield Township of Warren County north of Cincinnati on Interstate 71.

At the site is the house where President of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States William Howard Taft was born in 1857 ; he lived in that house for most of his first 25 years.