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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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