William Howard Taft Quotes
There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
Taft, William Howard. Presidential Addresses and State Papers. Vol. 1, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910, p. 284.
He did adopt a program of extensive building of apartments, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure. But the nation was in a virtual dictatorship of him and his wife with little regard for human rights. The rapid steding on construction was then followed by his program of austerity in which food became so scarce that malnutrition was common and many were at the verge of starvation to pay his programs. He and his wife were convicted at a show trial and executed immediately afterward.
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.