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...Republican Party is far from dead today," Robert Taft Jr. said last night at the Union. "It only needs to use its head to solve its problems...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: Taft Optimistic About GOP Future, Favors Firmer U.S. Foreign Policy | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...Taft said that state and local governments should play a larger role in solving these problems. He urged consideration of plans, such as those proposed by former Presidential Economic Adviser Walter Heller, which would return federal revenues to state governments. Taft pointed out that he had sponsored such a plan in the Ohio Legislature...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: Taft Optimistic About GOP Future, Favors Firmer U.S. Foreign Policy | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...Robert Taft Jr., former congressman from Ohio and grandson of President William Howard Taft, will speak on Recapturing the Center" at 8 p.m. tonight in the second-floor common of the Freshman Union. The talk is sponsored by the Harvard young Republican Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taft to Speak | 5/20/1965 | See Source »

...isthmian canal, Roosevelt signed treaties with Cuba and Panama providing for U.S intervention to protect the fledgling republics' independence. But T.R.'s successors also invoked the corollary. In 1909 when Nicaragua erupted in chaos under the corrupt anti-American dictatorship of Jose Santos Zelaya, President Taft sent in troops, who occupied the Central American republic almost continually until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: The Johnson Corollary | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...Taft (or Goldwater) can't win" was the expedientials' trump. But they failed to notice that 1964 was being played in no trump, because for the first time in twenty years no one really expected any Republican candidate to beat President Johnson. When it became clear that Rockefeller's popularity was on the way down, most of his backing quickly vanished...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: Two Retrospective Road Maps to San Francisco | 4/21/1965 | See Source »

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