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...humorless Senator Taft, for instance, does not come in for very sympathetic treatment. At a Yale Corporation meeting with "Mr. Republican," Acheson recounts, the group was discussing Yale a science program. Taft interrupted a speaker to announce "Mr. President, I went through Yale without taking a single course in science...
Discussing Goldwater's talk, panelist Mark DeWolfe Howe termed him a "reactionary"--"If the opinions of Chief Justice Marshall, Taft, and Hughes are pronouncements of conservatism, is Goldwater fair to us and to his conscience when he describes himself as a conservative...
...central east front of the building between the house and Senate wings remained the same for every inaugural (except Taft's indoor ceremony) from Jackson to Eisenhower. But it did not wear well. The walls and columns, cut from a Virginia sandstone quarry owned by George Washington, crumbled in many places like stale cake...
...Although one historian points out that no U.S. President with a mustache ever declared war-partly because the U.S. has had no mustachioed President since William Howard Taft...
...stamping, roaring ovation that followed his speech, it was clear that conservatives of all ages had found their most persuasive voice since Robert Alphonso Taft...