Next is “Big Bill” - William Howard Taft. Before becoming the 27th president - Taft aspired to be a Supreme Court Justice.

William Howard Taft’s entry into politics came through judicial appointments. Until date, he remains the only person to have ...

Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt during a campaign stop in Milwaukee on Oct. 14, 1912. He then delivered ...

William Howard Taft was the natural successor to Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he had a very warm working relationship (one journalist wrote that T.A.F.T. stood for “Take Advice From Theodore.”) He ...

Today is Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, the day of the week when I reprise a quotation intended to be uplifting or enlightening.

just three feet from Taft and Diaz. Theodore Roosevelt: On October 4, 1912, a saloon keeper named John Schrank shot former President Theodore Roosevelt — who was running for president again that ...

"I have received hundreds of letters protesting it," then-President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Taft, who was his secretary of war. Roosevelt warned that photo-ops of political leaders' leisure ...

Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick. Quoted in Archibald W. Butt (1930), Taft and Roosevelt. I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply ...

That year’s campaign — which saw Republican William Howard Taft and Democrat William Jennings Bryan vie to succeed Theodore Roosevelt — saw both sides look for new ways to get their message to voters.

Jack Dixey, promoter and political collector since he was 13, loves to share his knowledge and the great world of Americana.