Search for: "TAFT WILSON" Results 1 - 20 of 192
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
7 Dec 2014, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
It was during this time, after all, that Taft somehow managed to rise from his ignominious defeat by both Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election to achieve his lifelong goal of becoming chief justice. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Wilson’s 1916 nomination of Brandeis outraged Taft. [read post]
19 Mar 2018, 8:25 am by Jeffrey Rosen
In Taft’s day, his moderate changes to trade policy ended up dividing the party, and ultimately guaranteed the election of an internationalist Democrat, Woodrow Wilson. [read post]
30 Jul 2018, 8:32 am by Christine Corcos
” As a corrective, this article tells the story of Taft’s for-cause removal of the two general appraisers on his last day in office, following a process started in the midst of his 1912 reelection battle with future President Woodrow Wilson and former President Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]
30 Jul 2018, 8:32 am
” As a corrective, this article tells the story of Taft’s for-cause removal of the two general appraisers on his last day in office, following a process started in the midst of his 1912 reelection battle with future President Woodrow Wilson and former President Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 8:25 am by Jeff Rosen
The firing led to the historic breach between Taft and Roosevelt, splitting the Republican party and guaranteeing Woodrow Wilson's election in 1912. [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 3:15 am by NCC Staff
His four-year term was marked by a growing feud with his former political friend, Roosevelt, culminating with a disastrous 1912 election with both men losing to the Democrat, New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson. [read post]
24 Apr 2018, 3:14 am by Jeffrey Rosen
(Taft brought more antitrust suits in a single term than his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, had brought in nearly two.) [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 6:18 am by Eugene Volokh
This led to a dramatic breach with Roosevelt in the historic election of 1912, which Taft viewed as a crusade to defend the Constitution against the demagogic populism of Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 8:10 am by Jeff Rosen
(Taft brought more antitrust suits in a single term than his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, had brought in nearly two.) [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 5:20 pm by David Bernstein
UPDATE: If we limit ourselves to Wilson’s opponents in the 1912 and 1916 elections, Taft and Hughes were way better choices. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
The year 1916 also marked the restoration of a two-party competition for president and, as we see in this enlightening book, the beginning of the two-party battle for the hearts and minds of Americans that continues to this day.There are a number of nice blurbs, but for our readers, this one jumps out:"Few living historians know as much about the presidency during the Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson eras as Lew Gould. [read post]
3 Oct 2013, 12:00 pm by Gerry W. Beyer
On this day in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation into law, which concluded a process begun four years earlier by President Taft. [read post]
3 Oct 2013, 5:46 am by Paul Caron
That is the day that President Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation into law in 1913, concluding a process begun four years earlier by President William Howard Taft.... [read post]
8 Jan 2018, 3:29 am by NCC Staff
The speech to a joint session of Congress was not without controversy, with former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft among its harshest critics. [read post]
19 Jul 2018, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
” As a corrective, this article tells the story of Taft’s for-cause removal of the two general appraisers on his last day in office, following a process started in the midst of his 1912 reelection battle with future President Woodrow Wilson and former President Theodore Roosevelt. [read post]
20 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
   The Party and the Court, as well, of course, as Northern Democrats, all took on board the assurances of Southern white Progressives like Woodrow Wilson that segregation and disenfranchisement were the enlightened alternatives to race war. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 8:56 am by Eugene Volokh
Put these in order by moving the fewest names: Washington, Wilson, Johnson, Johnson, McKinley, Davis, Jackson, Taft, Kennedy Moving a name to between two other names, before the first name, or after the last name all count as one move. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 12:03 am by rhapsodyinbooks
President William Howard Taft denounced Brandeis for his allegedly radical political views. [read post]