President Taft worked with Congress to launch his effort to streamline government, while Trump has taken a different route.

Despite Taft’s pleas stressing the need to sustain these changes beyond his tenure, Congress was tired of the empowerment of the executive by Republican presidents Theodore Roosevelt ...

The other two, Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman ... 9 out of 13 GOP primaries over former President William Howard Taft, his onetime hand-picked successor on whom he soured.