H. Taft has added a plank pledging himself to the support of sports to the platform on which he will run. Oil king Rockefeller has President Roosevelt nervous WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 1908 (UP ...

The party bosses, controlled in the interests of President Taft, award just about all of these delegates to him. It's a steal. It's an absolute steal. It infuriates the Roosevelt supporters.

Grand buildings, parades, pyrotechnics and exhibits drew visitors to Chilhowee Park for the 1910 Appalachian Exposition.

William Howard Taft was the natural successor to Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he had a very warm working relationship (one journalist wrote that T.A.F.T. stood for “Take Advice From Theodore.”) He ...

A little less than a year after being elected the 27th president of the United States in 1908, William Howard Taft planned an ...

It was a promise he did not keep. William Howard Taft, Roosevelt's hand-picked successor to the White House, promised to carry out a progressive agenda, but as his administration wore on ...

Like Trump, Roosevelt had already been president but had left office for four years after two terms, leaving Republican William Howard Taft as president. For the 1912 election, Taft had the ...

Roosevelt’s Committee on Administrative Management ... Since at least 1910, when President William Howard Taft established a Commission on Economy and Efficiency to address the “unnecessarily ...

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