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...largest individual Arlington plot previously set aside was the seven-tenths of an acre on which General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, is buried. Only one other President-William Howard Taft-is buried in Arlington, on a plot of six-hundredths of an acre shared by his wife...
Only in one key state for Republicans was a really discordant note heard. In Ohio, U.S. Representative Robert Taft, son of the late great Mr. Republican, announced his 1964 candidacy for the Senate seat of Incumbent Dem ocrat Stephen Young, told newsmen that a national Republican ticket headed by Goldwater "would make it difficult" for his senatorial campaign in Ohio...
...JUNE TAFT CONWAY...
Through the years, Connally's biting wit was feared by his Senate colleagues. He once snappishly advised New Hampshire Republican Styles Bridges that he should "approach these matters with an open mind instead of an open mouth." He left Ohio Republican Robert Taft speechless with shock by accusing him of "cravenly going around begging for a few dirty, filthy votes." He warned New Hampshire's Bible-quoting Republican Charles Tobey: "Don't you ever shake that lanky Yankee finger at me." He attacked Chiang Kai-shek for "stealing" U.S. aid money, advised that "the trouble with...
After the war, White became a lawyer, a judge, a U.S. Senator, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. When Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller died in 1910, the other Associate Justices paid White a magnificent tribute: they petitioned President Taft to appoint him to head the court. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was on the court at that time, had been wounded five times while serving in the Union forces, said Warren. Yet Holmes and White formed "an abiding friendship." In 1915, in Guinn v. U.S., the White court considered an Oklahoma amendment that discriminated against Negroes by requiring...