Taft's spouse was determined to gain the White House and pressured him not to accept a court appointment ; other family members also strongly favored the Presidency for him.

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

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.

In the 1912 election Roosevelt tried and failed to block Taft's renomination.

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

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

On October 27, 1911, however, Roosevelt and Taft's deteriorating friendship officially came to an end when Taft's administration filed an antitrust suit against US Steel, which Roosevelt labeled as a " good trust ".

Roosevelt had 88 electoral votes to Taft's 8 electoral votes.

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 democrats referred to Taft's nomination and potential election, pre-determined by the powerful Roosevelt, as a possible " forced succession to the presidency.

Indeed, Taft's administration marked a change in style from the political charisma of Roosevelt to the passion of Taft for the rule of law.

The lawsuit even named Roosevelt personally without Taft's knowledge.

During Taft's administration, a rift grew between Roosevelt and Taft as they became the leaders of the Republican Party's two wings: the progressives, led by Roosevelt, and the conservatives, led by Taft.

As a sign of his great popularity, Roosevelt even carried Taft's home state of Ohio.

The Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Taro used the opportunity presented by Secretary of War William Howard Taft's stopover in Tokyo to extract a statement from ( representative of the Roosevelt Administration ) Taft's opinions toward the " Korea question ".

Taft's greatest prominence during his first term came not from his fight against the New Deal and President Franklin Roosevelt, but rather from his vigorous and outspoken opposition to US involvement in the Second World War.

The 1912 Republican convention saw the business-oriented faction supporting William Howard Taft turn back a challenge from former president Theodore Roosevelt, who boasted broader popular support and even won a primary in Taft's home state of Ohio.

He performed this service for about $ 2, 000 per year from early 1908 until 1912 when President William Howard Taft removed Masterson from the position during Taft's purge of Roosevelt supporters from government positions.

A second set of letters, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, was published in two volumes in 1930 after Taft's death.

Hackett criticized Jean Schmidt as a " rubber stamp " for Ohio Governor Bob Taft's " failed policies " and said she would continue in that role for George W. Bush if elected.

In his only term, Taft's domestic agenda emphasized trust-busting, civil service reform, strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission, improving the performance of the postal service, and passage of the Sixteenth Amendment.

He was one of only two Supreme Court Justices nominated by President Taft who also later served during Taft's tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Historian Carl Sferrazza Anthony has written that Taft's explanation only " vaguely addressed " the real reason Butt failed to marry.

In the run-up to the London Radiotelegraph Convention in 1912 ( essentially an international gentlemen's agreement on use of the radio band, non-binding and, on the high seas, completely null ), and amid concerns about the safety of marine radio following the sinking of the on April 15 of that year ( although there were never allegations of radio interference in that event ), the New York Herald of April 17, 1912, headlined President William Howard Taft's initiative to regulate the public airwaves in an article titled " President Moves to Stop Mob Rule of Wireless.

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.

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.

No foreign affairs controversy tested Taft's statesmanship and commitment to peace more than the uprising in Mexico against the authoritarian regime of the aging Porfirio Diaz, which had attracted billions in capital investment for economic development, much of it from the U. S. Anti-regime ( and anti-American ) riots began in 1910 and were reported by Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson to Knox, who failed to pass the information on to the President.

In addition, some of Taft's supporters in Massachusetts were angered when Lodge supported Eisenhower, and they defected to Kennedy's campaign.

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.

Wright and Ide were two of the Commissioners whose days as Commissioners had become numbered after Taft's visit.

Among other honors, Taft's accomplishments were recognized by his election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( now known as the American Academy of Arts and Letters ).

Lieutenant Taft's dogtags were discovered on the body of a NVA soldier who had been killed by 3rd Platoon.

Under Taft's ownership, WTAF soon established itself as a local powerhouse, and ran programs from Taft's archive, such as Hanna-Barbera cartoons, which from 1979 onward were distributed by Worldvision Enterprises ( which Taft had purchased ), and later on the Quinn Martin library.

As part of a group deal, all of Taft's independent and Fox-affiliated stations, including WTAF, were sold to the Norfolk, Virginia-based TVX Broadcast Group in February 1987.

The growth of its home video division was primarily under the ownership of Taft Broadcasting, which acquired the company in 1979 ( and coincidentally had a good relationship with ABC, as most of Taft's VHF TV stations were affiliated with that network ).

A popular figure in Republican politics, he turned down three cabinet posts during his political career: Secretary of the Interior in President William McKinley's administration in 1898, Attorney General under President McKinley in 1901, and Secretary of State in President William Howard Taft's administration in 1909.

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.

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.

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.

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