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William Howard Taft (1909–1913) refused to support further work by the Conservation Commission. He rejected new conservation proposals as violating congressional authority and possessing no legal standing. Taft’s administrative appointments, including Interior Secretary Richard Ballinger, favored opening public lands to more private ...
As William Howard Taft, one of the great constitutional conservatives, explained, under our Constitution “the people do rule and have always ruled in the United States. They have their will but they have it after a wholesome delay and deliberation which they have wisely forced themselves to take under the restrictions of a Constitution.”
Under the guidance of then-Secretary of War William Howard Taft, the Board of Fortifications proposed establishing fortified defenses in the bays and harbors acquired during the Spanish-American War.
But after two conservative appointments by President Warren Harding in the early 1920s, during the chief justiceship of former president William Howard Taft, a bloc of four justices reinvigorated the notion of liberty to contract.
He left office extremely popular and well respected and handed the White House off to his hand-picked successor, fellow Republican William Howard Taft. But Roosevelt was so aggravated by Taft’s performance and the direction of the GOP that he challenged Taft for the Republican nomination in the next presidential election.? When Roosevelt ...
California voted for the Republican nominee, former War Secretary William Howard Taft and his running mate James S. Sherman of New York. They defeated the Democratic nominees, former representative and the 1896 and 1900 nominee, William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and his running with John W. Kern, a former Indiana state senator. Taft won the ...
The Planet condones Secretary of War William H. Taft’s speech in New York and the “new light” he sees upon the African American race.
