William Howard Taft Quotes
I could not accept such a large sum from anyone outside my own family.
William Cromwell had sent a $50,000 check to Taft’s Campaign. That would be the equivalent of more than $1 million in year 2000 money. He instructed the campaign manager to return the check. President Theodore Roosevelt thought Taft was being too principled and urged him to accept the money. See {640688} for Taft’s reply. Taft finally compromised between Roosevelt and his conscience, and took only $10,000.
William Howard Taft, 1857-1930, 27th President of the United States (Republican, OH), Statement to his campaign treasurer, George Sheldon about a $50,000 contribution, September 1908
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See {640687}. He was then very worried about the influence of money in politics and was willing to risk his own reelection by limiting his contributions. And he was the Republican presidential candidate so his policy was particularly unusual. A century later money in politics had ballooned to a much larger problem as Taft’s action had little or no effect on the overall relationship between money and politics outside of his campaign.
Previous Sultans had developed a large army of Black Moors. Then there was a civil war in Morocco where the light skinned Moroccans fought against those of dark skin. The light skins won and the new Sultan ordered the remnants of the Black soldiers with their families to Larache where he surrounded them by Arabs and simply gave the Blacks to the light skinned Arabs as slaves.
The Senator had been criticized for taking campaign contributions from gamblers who were part of organized crime. Although his defense was the legality of gambling in Nevada, despite various efforts to reduce the influence of organized crime in the gambling industry, there is still some involvement and influence.
- Born: September 15, 1857
- Died: March 8, 1930
- Nationality: American
- Profession: President
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for reelection by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, a position he held until a month before his death.
