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...ton B. Parker]] in 1904, but Bryan was back in 1908, losing this time to [[William Howard Taft]]. [[Image:WJB1910.JPG|300px|left|thumb|Bryan helps GOP insurgents 1910]]

...orial legitimacy in the Far East. During the administration of President [[William Howard Taft]] (1909-1913), the United States attempted to move into Manchuria and China

...] shared the growing concern with business influence on government. When [[William Howard Taft]] appeared to be too cozy with pro-business conservatives in terms of tarif

The delicate balance flew apart on president [[William Howard Taft]]'s watch. Taft campaigned in 1908 for tariff "reform," which everyone assu

...e personally could decide which trusts were "good" and which "bad." When [[William Howard Taft]] became President in 1909, he disagreed sharply with Roosevelt's personal

...o be made only after examination. In 1909, by a similar order, President [[William Howard Taft]] extended the merit system to the appointment and promotion of diplomatic

...] shared the growing concern with business influence on government. When [[William Howard Taft]] appeared to be too cozy with pro-business conservatives in terms of tarif

...bor Board]], cochaired by labort lawyer Frank Walsh and former president [[William Howard Taft]] worked to reduce strikes. The new Railroad Wage Commission and adjustment

...n under debate recently. The "elite" style of conservatism, typified by [[William Howard Taft]] and his son [[Robert A. Taft]], emphasized the court system as a conserva ...World War I]] to stop what he saw as the German attacks on civilization. [[William Howard Taft]] promoted a strong federal judiciary that would overrule excessive legisla

Roosevelt did succeed in naming his successor Secretary of War [[William Howard Taft]] who easily defeated Bryan again in 1908. ...ormously popular president (1901-1909), and he transferred the office to [[William Howard Taft]]. Taft, however, did not have TR's enormous popularity nor his ability to

...t labor unions. In 1910, he broke with his friend and anointed successor [[William Howard Taft]], but lost the Republican nomination to Taft and ran in the 1912 election Roosevelt certified [[William Howard Taft]] to be a genuine "progressive" in 1908, when Roosevelt pushed through the

...ery bosses who had secured his election. With [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and [[William Howard Taft]] dividing the Republican vote, Wilson was elected President as a [[Democra ...he election Wilson ran against two major candidates, incumbent President [[William Howard Taft]] and former president [[Theodore Roosevelt]], who broke with Taft and the

...left, attacking big business and busting the trusts. Roosevelt anointed [[William Howard Taft]] in [[U.S. presidential election, 1908|1908]], but Taft worked more with t | [[U.S. presidential election, 1908|1908]] || Won ||rowspan=2| [[William Howard Taft]] || [[James S. Sherman]]^[3] || 27th || 1909-1913

...912, under Republican Presidents [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (1901-1909), and [[William Howard Taft]] (1909-1913), and others sympathetic to the [[Antitrust| antitrust views]] ...tates. While public spending as a percent of GDP had declined during the [[William Howard Taft|Taft]] Administration, it began to rise under Wilson's leadership in a tren

...included such diverse and well-known personages as [[Andrew Carnegie]], [[William Howard Taft]], [[Henry H. Rogers|Henry Huttleston Rogers]], and [[Julius Rosenwald]], t

...hs over Iraq and the Soviet Union seemed not to affect the voters. Like [[William Howard Taft]] (who followed [[Theodore Roosevelt]]) and [[Harry Truman]] (who followed

...government. Rejecting the adversarial stance of [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[William Howard Taft]], and [[Woodrow Wilson]], he sought to make the Commerce Department a powe