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Government buildings have a special obligation to express their public nature. Taft Architects, a partnership of three Houstonians, has met that obligation with its elegant Water Resources Building for the Houston exurb of The Woodlands, a structure that serves, for now, as the town hall. The columns and pediment are stucco and the "stone" is split-faced concrete block, but classic American civic form is evoked with a convincing freshness...
...waiver to import goods from a Chinese company on which the U.S. had recently imposed sanctions. Sources familiar with the incident tell TIME that Bolton, who opposed the waiver, became angry when he learned that the State Department's legal division supported it. He went to William Taft, the department's top lawyer, to demand that Taft's subordinate be taken off the case. A witness to their discussion described Bolton as "shouting" and "yelling" at Taft. "But that was nothing unusual," a former official who was present tells TIME, "because John was always a strong friend...
...that stood when he took charge. Kimball, who had been an invalid for four years, died in Salt Lake City last week at the age of 90. Certain to succeed him is the senior among the church's twelve apostles who govern with the President and his counselors: Ezra Taft Benson, 86, a controversial archconservative who served eight years as President Eisenhower's Secretary of Agriculture...
Roosevelt wrote columns and delivered speeches sharply chastising Taft, accusing him of violating “every canon of ordinary decency and fair dealing.” O’Toole’s narrative of the ruined friendship paints Roosevelt as the pigheaded party who refused Taft’s peace gestures. Taft is the far more sympathetic figure. For instance, while on the stump, Taft broke into tears, lamenting that “Roosevelt was my closest friend...
...conservatives wanted nothing to do with Roosevelt’s progressive policies. After a dispute over the allocation of delegates, the 1912 GOP national convention nominated Taft, prompting Roosevelt to form his own Bull Moose Party and run anyway. “Roosevelt had loved the presidency for the power it gave him to play the hero, and when it ended, he was as wounded and blind as a husband who loses an adored wife to another man,” O’Toole writes. The two candidates split the Republican ballots, and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, won with...