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Before Donald Trump, the last president to put tariffs at the top ... Wilson’s immediate predecessor, William Howard Taft, had promised a thorough-going reduction in the tariff schedules ...

the Entrance Hall featured a portrait of President William Howard Taft painted in 1911. President Gerald Ford's portrait, located in the Cross Hall of the White House, was draped in black curtains ...

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In 1909, when President William Howard Taft built the first Oval Office, it was designed in the Federal style, which is the form of Georgian neoclassicism favored by the Founding Fathers.