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 ...

(JTA) — A letter written by former President William Howard Taft opposing the nomination ... them that he was a Jew of Jews.” In 1916, the Senate approved the Brandeis nomination by a vote ...

On March 8, 1930, William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States, died at age 72. And before you ask the question: no, he did not die by getting stuck in a bathtub. In fact ...

As President of the United States from 1909 to 1913, William Howard Taft's minimum body mass index was 42 kg/m 2. This article presents evidence that he suffered from obstructive sleep apnea ...

In the following year, a young firm headed by Robert A. Taft (who later became a U.S. Senator) and Charles P. Taft II, sons of former President William Howard Taft, joined the older firm to become ...