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 ...

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The conversion of the late great William Howard Taft from Wet to Dry was the high spot of last week’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, sitting in judgment on measures to modify or ...

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 to Los Angeles that included visits to not only the city ...