What did president Taft do?

Question

and McKinley

besides being fat and rich?

Answer 1

ate at the ALl you can eat buffet 24/7..and was the president of the US for 4 years.

Answer 2

President Taft, very underated president, as he came between Roosevelt and Wilson, but, he destroyed over twice as many trusts as Rossevelt, had a pretty good foreign policy, and he appointed six justices to the supreme court. During McKinley's presidency alot of important events happened, the Spanish-American war, the Boxer Rebellion, the Phillipino war, the annexation of Hawaii, and the passage of the gold standard act. President Taft was a decent president by all means, he was a lawyer before he was president, and he was the governor-general of the Philipines after our conflilct there, and secretary of war during the Roosevelt administration, he was very progressive, and your assesment of McKinley and Taft are very far from the truth.

In the election of 1912, Taft only had half of Republican support, Roosevelt had the Progressive half of the Republican party, and Taft had the more conservative half, basically that is why Wilson won, and thank god he did.

Answer 3

He was the only man in the history of the USA to have filled both the offices of the President and the Chief Justice of the United States. He distinguished himself as a dancer and tennis player and wasn't too bad at golf, so those sports were presumably among the things he actually did. His route to the White House was via administrative posts. President McKinley sent him to the Philippines in 1900 as chief civil administrator. Sympathetic toward the Filipinos, he improved the economy, built roads and schools, and gave the people at least some participation in government.

President Roosevelt made him Secretary of War, and by 1907 had decided that Taft should be his successor. The Republican Convention nominated him the next year.

Taft disliked the campaign--"one of the most uncomfortable four months of my life." But he pledged his loyalty to the Roosevelt program, popular in the West, while his brother Charles reassured eastern Republicans. William Jennings Bryan, running on the Democratic ticket for a third time, complained that he was having to oppose two candidates, a western progressive Taft and an eastern conservative Taft.

Progressives were pleased with Taft's election. "Roosevelt has cut enough hay," they said; "Taft is the man to put it into the barn." Conservatives were delighted to be rid of Roosevelt--the "mad messiah."

Taft recognized that his techniques would differ from those of his predecessor. Unlike Roosevelt, Taft did not believe in the stretching of Presidential powers. He once commented that Roosevelt "ought more often to have admitted the legal way of reaching the same ends."

Taft alienated many liberal Republicans who later formed the Progressive Party, by defending the Payne-Aldrich Act which unexpectedly continued high tariff rates. A trade agreement with Canada, which Taft pushed through Congress, would have pleased eastern advocates of a low tariff, but the Canadians rejected it. He further antagonized Progressives by upholding his Secretary of the Interior, accused of failing to carry out Roosevelt's conservation policies.

In the angry Progressive onslaught against him, little attention was paid to the fact that his administration initiated 80 antitrust suits and that Congress submitted to the states amendments for a Federal income tax and the direct election of Senators. A postal savings system was established, and the Interstate Commerce Commission was directed to set railroad rates.

In 1912, when the Republicans renominated Taft, Roosevelt bolted the party to lead the Progressives, thus guaranteeing the election of Woodrow Wilson.

Taft, free of the Presidency, served as Professor of Law at Yale until President Harding made him Chief Justice of the United States, a position he held until just before his death in 1930. To Taft, the appointment was his greatest honor; he wrote: "I don't remember that I ever was President."

Answer 4

Taft started out as a progressive republican, however he soon dissappointed his fellow party members. He succeeded Roosevelt, and instead of improving and expanding his reforms, Taft pretty much ended them. TR set away over a million acres of land for wild life preserves. Taft quickly took them back. Taft also rose tarriffs under the Payne Bill. The Aldrich bill was passed to lower tarriffs again, but Taft quickly signed the Payne-Aldrich Bill which was supposed to be a compromise but which really kept the high tarriffs of the Payne Bill. Progressives despised him for his betrayel of the party. However, although Taft pretty much sucked, he did trust bust around 90 companies to Roosevelt's 44. When Roosevelt returned from a long hunt out of the country, however, he was horrified at Taft's changes. He decided to run again for his 3rd term presidency. Taft still had republican support, however, so Roosevelt created the Bull Moose Party. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson (democrat) ran in the election of 1910. Wilson won. Taft came in third, with very public little support.

That's about all I can remember about Taft.

Answer 5

Absolutely nothing! One of the most pointless presidents in American history!! He wasn't even interested in being president, he just did it to please his wife. By the end of his term his weight was well over 300 pounds. What a waste of time!!