Examples of Robert Taft in the following topics:
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- Opposition to the New Deal also came from the Old Right, a group of conservative free-market anti-interventionists, originally associated with midwestern Republicans led by Hoover and Robert A.
- Taft, the son of former President William Howard Taft.
- Its most prominent leaders were Senator Robert Taft (R-OH) and Senator Richard Russell (D-GA).
- Robert Taft unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in 1940, 1948, and 1952, and was an opponent of American membership in NATO and of American participation in the Korean War.
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- Eisenhower, who became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the longtime leader of the GOP's conservative wing, and Governor Earl Warren of California, who appealed to Western delegates and independent voters.
- Eisenhower scored a major victory in the New Hampshire primary when his supporters wrote his name onto the ballot, giving him an upset victory over Taft.
- When the 1952 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, Eisenhower's managers, led by Thomas Dewey and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., accused Taft's leaders of unfairly denying delegate spots to Eisenhower supporters.
- Lodge and Dewey proposed to evict the pro-Taft delegates in these states and replace them with pro-Eisenhower delegates.
- The convention voted to support Fair Play, and Taft lost many Southern delegates.
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- The first Republican president in 20 years, Eisenhower was a moderate conservative who challenged Taft's international policies.
- In 1952, a small group of Republicans drafted an internationalist allied with Thomas Dewey as a GOP candidate in order to challenge Robert A.
- Taft on foreign policy issues.
- While they differed on foreign policy, Taft and Eisenhower were not far apart on domestic issues.
- Compare and contrast Taft and Eisenhower's approaches to foreign and domestic policy.
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- He supported the conservative fiscal and taxation policies of the Taft Republicans.
- His goal was to prevent Robert Taft's non-interventionism—including opposition to NATO—from becoming public policy.
- Eisenhower was a conservative whose policy views were close to Taft.
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- Senator Robert A.
- Taft said that isolationism was dead, but he saw little role for the United States in the Cold War.
- Eisenhower the NATO commander and war hero narrowly defeated Taft, then crusaded against the Truman policies he blasted as "Korea, Communism and Corruption."
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- The most important proposals of the Fair Deal were aid to education, universal health insurance, legislation on fair employment and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act.
- Truman's multitudinous proposed measures included federal aid to education, a large tax cut for low-income earners, the abolition of poll taxes, an anti-lynching law, a permanent FEPC, a farm aid program, increased public housing, an immigration bill, new TVA-style public works projects, the establishment of a new Department of Welfare, the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, an increase in the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour, national health insurance, expanded Social Security coverage and a $4 billion tax increase to reduce the national debt and finance these programs.
- However, despite strong opposition, there were elements of Truman’s agenda that did win congressional approval, such as the public housing subsidies cosponsored by Republican Robert A.
- Taft under the 1949 National Housing Act, which funded slum clearance and the construction of 810,000 units of low-income housing over a period of six years.
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- Differences between Republicans Taft and Roosevelt served to split the Republican party, resulting in Democrat Wilson's win in 1912.
- In response, Taft soon decided that he would focus on canvassing for delegates and not attempt at the outset to confront Roosevelt.
- Taft thought that, despite probable defeat, the Republican party had been preserved as "the defender of conservative government and conservative institutions. " However Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic nominee, was elected with 41% of the popular vote, Roosevelt 27%, and Taft, 25%.
- In part, Taft's defeat resulted from his weakness as a campaigner.
- Furthermore, Taft's indifference towards the press (he once sought to legislatively abolish the press' reduced tariff rates on print paper and wood pulp) meant that he was an unpopular figure for political journalists and commentators, and the press seized the opportunity to lash out at Taft during the election.
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- In 1908, Theodore Roosevelt persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft to run against Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan.
- The U.S. presidential election of 1908 was between Republican Party candidate William Howard Taft and Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan.
- Republicans used the slogan: "Vote for Taft now, you can vote for Bryan anytime," a sarcastic reference to Bryan's two failed previous presidential campaigns.
- Portrait of William Howard Taft, the Republican Party candidate in the presidential election of 1908.
- This map showing the 1908 presidential election results uses blue to denote states won by Bryan/Kern, and red to denote those won by Taft/Sherman.
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- Taft agreed on the need for conservation, but felt it should be accomplished by legislation rather than by executive order.
- Roosevelt was surprised at the replacement, believing that Taft had promised to keep Garfield, and this change was one of the events that caused Roosevelt to realize that Taft would choose different policies.
- At the same time, Taft tried to amicably resolve the problem with Pinchot and affirm his administration's pro-conservation stance.
- During Taft's administration, a rift grew between Roosevelt and Taft as they became the leaders of the Republican Party's two wings: the Progressives, led by Roosevelt, and the Conservatives, led by Taft.
- This cartoon shows Taft and Roosevelt, who were political enemies in 1912.
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- The compromise, based on the Aldrich Plan but sponsored by Democratic congressmen Carter Glass and Robert Owen, allowed the private banks to control twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks and placed controlling interest in a central board to be appointed by the president with Senate approval.
- This legislation fulfilled both the Progressive aims of Roosevelt and Taft while deviating from their approach to breaking monopolies.
- Rather than the piecemeal success of Roosevelt and Taft in targeting certain trusts and monopolies in lengthy lawsuits, the Clayton Antitrust Act effectively defined unfair business practices and created a common code of sanctioned business activity.