The conversion of the late great William Howard Taft from Wet to Dry was the high spot of last week’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, sitting in judgment on measures to modify or ...

William Howard Taft was the natural successor to Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he had a very warm working relationship (one journalist wrote that T.A.F.T. stood for “Take Advice From Theodore.”) He ...

WASHINGTON -- The body of William Howard Taft rested in an Arlington grave today while the nation went about its work again with only memories of the man who so recently played such a vital part ...

Among former U.S. presidents, Jimmy Carter was in a league of his own. George Washington operated a whiskey distillery at Mount Vernon after leaving the presidency. William Howard Taft became ...

A little less than a year after being elected the 27th president of the United States in 1908, William Howard Taft planned an ...