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When Theodore Roosevelt challenged William Howard Taft for the Republican presidential nomination in 1912, few cheered. Enemies accused him of monumental egotism, and most admirers, foreseeing his defeat, were worried that posterity would frown on his quest for an unprecedented third term. But as Roosevelt saw it, he had to involve himself. He had left the White House in 1909 with the expectation that Taft, his good friend and chosen successor, would continue on the progressive course set by the Roosevelt Administration. Instead, Taft had filled his Cabinet with corporate lawyers, bungled a chance to overhaul an antiquated tariff that...
...short while after the Great White Fleet's return, Roosevelt relinquished the presidency. To his successor, William Howard Taft, he had one message: Do not divide the fleet. The Mahanian principle of concentrating the main battle fleet in one theater remained in place. It would still be there in 1914 when the Panama Canal, instigated by T.R., finally opened. Only during the Second World War, when the U.S. Navy became the largest in the world, would the U.S. possess a two-ocean fleet...
Soon after the Inauguration of his successor, William Howard Taft, on March 4, 1909, Roosevelt and his son Kermit sail to Africa, where they spend nearly a year shooting animals for the Smithsonian. In early 1912, T.R. announces his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, but the party renominates Taft--even though Roosevelt won all but one primary and caucus. The new Progressive (Bull Moose) Party promptly adopts T.R. as its candidate. That October he is shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, Wis., but gives a 90-min. speech before seeing a doctor. Democrat Woodrow Wilson is elected...
DIED. E. Pierce Marshall, 67, best known for his as-yet-unresolved 11-year battle with his stepmother, ex-stripper Anna Nicole Smith, over the estate of his oil-tycoon father J. Howard Marshall, who died in 1995; after a severe infection; in Dallas. The elder Marshall married Smith in 1994, when...
...RELEASED. Abubakar Ba'asyir, 67, Indonesian cleric convicted of criminal conspiracy in the October 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people; after serving 26 months in prison; in Jakarta. Upon leaving the city's Cipinang prison, Abubakar denounced the U.S. as a "state terrorist." Australian President John Howard, whose country lost 88 citizens in Bali, said millions of Australians were "extremely disappointed, even distressed" that the cleric had been set free...