To Cliff Sloan, an accomplished lawyer teaching at Georgetown Law School, Korematsu epitomized the high court’s tendency to “obsequiously” defer to President Franklin Roosevelt and military...
On April 14, 1910, President William Howard Taft was among the thousands of baseball fans who had thronged to the ballpark in Washington, D.C., eager to witness the start of the baseball season. As the country's 27th president, Taft was a well-known lover of the sport, and he had been an avid supporter of baseball throughout his political career.
William Taft #10: Dreams Do Come True (1920-1930); Topics covered include: 1920 Election, Warren Harding offers Taft a position on the Supreme Court, appointed Chief Justice, reforms for the...
Warren G. Harding. Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents. After his death, a number of scandals were exposed, including Teapot Dome, as well as ...
In 1909, he handed over the reigns of the presidency to William Howard Taft, also from Ohio, but became disillusioned with Taft and re-entered the national scene, running for President in 1912, which enabled Wilson, the Democrat to win in a three man race. Political ferment was prevalent in Ohio.
Presidents Andrew Johnson, Rutherford Hayes, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson lodged at the hotel, as did a host of celebrities from ...
According to President William Howard Taft, born on this date in 1857, "No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay do ...