Nicole Hemmer, Vanderbilt University, History Professor, talked about how President Taft was viewed during his time in office and how it shifted from the earlier 1908 campaign. Nicole Hemmer ...
William Howard Taft is standing in the center of this panorama ... In 1912, Edison wanted to build on the recording cylinders of 1908 by recording Taft in a newer technology — a talking movie. “Edison ...
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 ...