The conversion of the late great William Howard Taft from ... In 1918 Mr. Taft, as Yale’s Kent Professor of Law, was an avowed Wet. He wrote letters, later widely quoted, to his friend, Allen ...

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 official ... trip literally days later on March 9.