What were the achievements of president William Howard Taft?
I know hes super huge, had a wife and got a bigger tub but what did he really do? To contribute to the United Sates?
WHile you can site the 16th & 17th amendment with Taft and his "Dollar Diplomacy", Taft big contribution was to Split the Republican Party when Theodore Roosevelt ran for President again in 1912. The vote was split, but Taft won the primary election forcing Roosevelt to create the Bull Moose party, thus splitting the Republican vote allowing the worthless Woodrow Wilson into the White house.
Taft did however go on to Become the Chief Justice of The Supreme Court. Ruling on case law that would direct the course of events for the next century and then some.
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December 31st, 2009 at 4:12 am
He earned qand pay the usa.
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December 31st, 2009 at 4:27 am
Taft recognized that his techniques would differ from those of his predecessor. Unlike Roosevelt, Taft did not believe in the stretching of Presidential powers. He once commented that Roosevelt "ought more often to have admitted the legal way of reaching the same ends." Taft alienated many liberal Republicans who later formed the Progressive Party, by defending the Payne-Aldrich Act which unexpectedly continued high tariff rates. A trade agreement with Canada, which Taft pushed through Congress, would have pleased eastern advocates of a low tariff, but the Canadians rejected it. He further antagonized Progressives by upholding his Secretary of the Interior, accused of failing to carry out Roosevelt’s conservation policies. In the angry Progressive onslaught against him, little attention was paid to the fact that his administration initiated 80 antitrust suits and that Congress submitted to the states amendments for a Federal income tax and the direct election of Senators. A postal savings system was established, and the Interstate Commerce Commission was directed to set railroad rates. In 1912, when the Republicans renominated Taft, Roosevelt bolted the party to lead the Progressives, thus guaranteeing the election of Woodrow Wilson.
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December 31st, 2009 at 4:32 am
He was the first ex-president to be appointed to the Supreme Court. (And only one so far.)
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December 31st, 2009 at 4:40 am
WHile you can site the 16th & 17th amendment with Taft and his "Dollar Diplomacy", Taft big contribution was to Split the Republican Party when Theodore Roosevelt ran for President again in 1912. The vote was split, but Taft won the primary election forcing Roosevelt to create the Bull Moose party, thus splitting the Republican vote allowing the worthless Woodrow Wilson into the White house.
Taft did however go on to Become the Chief Justice of The Supreme Court. Ruling on case law that would direct the course of events for the next century and then some.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Supreme_Court_cases_by_the_Taft_Court