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...Washington, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, Taft, Harding, both Roosevelts and Truman were...
...Senate's McClellan Committee and author of a briskly selling book about labor corruption, The Enemy Within, At the same time, Jack has tried hard to persuade labor leaders that he is organized labor's staunch friend. He damned President Eisenhower's use of the Taft-Hartley Act to call an 80-day halt in last year's steel strike (after the strike had dragged on for twelve weeks with no settlement in prospect) as the "most one-sided, unfortunate and unfair action in this Administration's history." Top A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders have forgiven...
...William Howard Taft "loathed being President," and only accepted the office on his wife's insistence. He was nevertheless a great Chief Justice of the United States because the Supreme Court "was his notion of what heaven must be like...
...once complained: "Oh, if only Taft knew the joys of leadership!" Woodrow Wilson was dogmatic, inscrutably secretive and of limited vitality. His mind was second rate and his style of writing "synthetic Burke."¶ Calvin Coolidge was "arid," a kind of puritan, the sort of man who would make a speech "about George Washington as a businessman...
...Bull Moose revolt. Right-leaning Columnist David Lawrence and left-leaning Columnist Murray Kempton, who rarely agree on anything, both detected a scent of Bull Moose in the air, pointed out that no Republican presidential hopeful has openly attacked a Republican Administration since T.R. blasted William Howard Taft...