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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 ...

The first page of Theodore Roosevelt's speech that was damaged ... But his disappointment in the performance of William Howard Taft, his chosen successor, was so great that in 1912 he formed ...

Bettmann/ Corbis William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt had once been friends. But when the Republican Party met in Chicago to choose its presidential candidate in June 1912, the nomination ...

On October 14, 1912, Progressive Party presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt delivered ... It was a promise he did not keep. William Howard Taft, Roosevelt's hand-picked successor to the ...