Challenges: William Howard Taft stumbled dramatically on two important occasions as President: his special congressional session to revise the tariff downward, and his dismissal of Theodore ...

On March 8, 1930, William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States, died at age 72. And before you ask the ...

In 1910, it was Frederick Cleveland, an academic, who was President William H. Taft’s designated head of his effort to streamline government. Both presidents, Taft and Trump, have said they ...

and great-grandson of William Howard Taft, the only person in American history to have been president and chief justice of the United States ... senior status in the Senate.

There has been no president in the time of living men more genuinely democratic than William Howard Taft. His simplicity ... for the President of the United States, it is sometimes unworkable.

Musk’s slashing of government jobs, programs and departments isn’t the first effort by a president’s appointee to streamline ...

His unsupervised access to sensitive government materials and unchecked influence over the firing of federal employees represents an unprecedented moment in the United States. An unelected ...