1. FROM ROOSEVELT TO TAFT & THE LIMITS OF PROGRESSIVISM

2. William Howard Taft ROOSEVELT OFF TO AFRICAN SAFARI
J.P. MORGAN “LET EVERY LION DO HIS DUTY”
OHIO NATIVE, LAWYER BY TRADE, GRADUATE OF YALE
TAFT GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF PHILIPPINES (APPTD. BY MCKINLEY, 1900)
SECRETARY OF WAR UNDER ROOSEVELT
TAFT ENDORSED BY ROOSEVELT FOR PRESIDENT
PRESIDENT
ONLY PRESIDENT TO HAVE SERVED ON SUPREME COURT: CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES FROM 1921 TO1930

3. THE BATHTUB…

5. "While he was in the Philippines, disturbing reports about his health caused Secretary of War Elihu Root to send a cabled inquiry. Taft cabled back that he was perfectly all right -- he had just finished a twenty-five-mile horseback ride and was feeling fine. Root read that, smiled, and sent off another cable of solicitude: 'How is horse?'"

6. TAFT
6’ LBS.
LEGEND IS HE GOT STUCK IN THE WHITEHOUSE BATHTUB; TOOK 4-6 MEN TO GET HIM OUT
HAD NEW TUB INSTALLED 7’ LONG 41 INCHES WIDE
ROOSEVELT TOLD TAFT HE SHOULD NOT RIDE HIS HORSE BECAUSE IT “WAS CRUELTY TO THE ANIMAL”
BURIED IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY; ONLY PRESIDENT OTHER THAN JFK

7. TAFT’S LEGACY TARIFF REFORM
LOWER TARIFFS=INCREASED TRADE W/ COUNTRIES
NOT AS CHARASMATIC AS ROOSEVELT; CONGRESS NOT RECEPTIVE TO HIS METHODS
TRUST-BUSTING LAWSUITS (80 LAWSUITS V. ROOSEVELT’S 25)
16TH AMENDMENT (1913)- FEDERAL INCOME TAX
17TH AMENDMENT (1913) – POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATORS
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION (ICC) – GOVT. REGULATION OF RRS, TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH COMPANIES

8. TAFT’S LEGACY CONTINUED
WITHDREW MORE PUBLIC LAND; MORE PRESERVATION/CONSERVATION IN FOUR YEARS THAN ROOSEVELT HAD IN EIGHT!
BALLINGER AND PINCHOT AFFAIR
RICHARD BALLINGER OF SEATTLE APPOINTED SECRETARY OF INTERIOR; OPENED 1 MILLION ACRES WATERPOWER SITES TO COMMERCIAL USE; COAL LANDS IN ALASKA SOLD TO SEATTLE TYCOONS
GIFFORD PINCHOT OF PENNSYLVANIA (CONSERVATIONIST AND FIRST HEAD OF FOREST SERVICE) CONFRONTED TAFT; TAFT DID NOTHING; PINCHOT WENT PUBLIC; TAFT FIRED HIM

9. TAFT V. ROOSEVELT
RELATIONSHIP SOURS AS TAFT’S PRESIDENCY GAINS BAD REPUTATION
“TAFT SOLD THE SQUARE DEAL DOWN THE RIVER…A HOPELESS FATHEAD”
THEY WILL RUN AGAINST EACH OTHER IN THE 1912 ELECTION WHERE NEITHER WILL WIN