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The Presidency of William Howard Taft (American Presidency Series)

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The Presidency of William Howard Taft (American Presidency Series)

Theodore Roosevelt selected William Howard Taft to be his successor and gave him vital support during the presidential campaign of 1908. Taft was a conservative of upper-middle-class background with a long career on the bench, and he aspired to a judicial rather than a political career. Roosevelt nevertheless believed that Taft, a close personal friend, was the best man to continue his policies.

Taft agreed with many of Roosevelt's objectives, but not with his interpretation of presidential authority. Taft viewed the president's power as stemming from the constitution alone; he narrowly construed that power and denied that it involved the exercise of political leadership, or even initiative, with respect to legislation. As Taft saw it, his function as president was to establish a legal basis for the reforms undertaken by Roosevelt, not to enlarge the degree of federal intervention in the economic and social life of the nation. He was neither a renovator nor an innovator. Although Roosevelt expected him to expand executive power, Taft narrowed it. He sought the sound admin...

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The Life & Times of William Howard Taft (VOL. 1)

Henry F. Pringle

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Remaking the Presidency

Peri E. Arnold

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The William Howard Taft Presidency (American Presidency Series)

Lewis L. Gould

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David Burton

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William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency…

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The mark of your ignorance is the depth
of your belief in injustice and tragedy.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world...

the master calls a butterfly.

~Richard Bach, Illusions,
the adventures of a reluctant messiah
and Messiah's Handbook

The Life & Times of William Howard Taft, Vol. 2

Henry F. Pringle

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William Howard Taft (Getting to Know the Us Presidents)

Mike Venezia

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