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...Cincinnati, State Representative Robert A. Taft Jr., 44, son of the late Republican Senate leader, grandson of President William Howard Taft and an avowed Nixon-type Republican, announced that he will run for Congressman at large in Ohio next year. His father also began his political career in the Ohio legislature-and "Young Bob" hopes to follow him to Washington with a hard campaign stressing "individual liberty" and criticizing President Kennedy's foreign policy...
...East Room of the White House, where, on an improvised stage, the American Shakespeare Festival troupers presented excerpts from Macbeth and four other plays. It was Shakespeare's first visit inside the White House, although earlier troupers had declaimed the Bard for Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft on the White House lawn...
...that is a frightful effusion of blood in revolution and war during the century now opening.'' In 1914 the Review published a trenchant appraisal of "The Powers of the President'' by an acknowledged authority on the subject: former U.S. President (and Yaleman) William Howard Taft...
...those basic purposes, the U.N. is at best a very imperfect instrument. The Security Council, controlled by five major nations of disparate ambitions, rests solely upon power. But liberty really rests upon law, and this principal failure of the U.N. Charter was noted by the late Republican Senator Robert Taft ten years ago: "The fundamental difficulty is that [the U.N. Charter] is not based primarily on an underlying law and an administration of justice under that law." Moreover, with the threat of Security Council veto creating a stalemate of power, decisive action must come from a General Assembly where orderly...
Every few years the U.S. public is treated to an economic wrestling match in a big steel ring. First, the nation's steelmakers, usually citing wage increases, begin to talk about raising their prices. Then from the U.S. Senate come powerful protests; Republican Robert Taft led the crusade against one of the first postwar hikes in steel prices in 1948, and Democrat Estes Kefauver fought the last one in 1958 by rising to complain in 13 out of 14 consecutive Senate sessions...