Presidential Mini-Episode: William Howard Taft

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🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Olivia's mommy teaches us about our twenty-seventh president, William Howard Taft.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, today my mommy is going to talk about William Howard Taft.
0:08.6	Thank you, Noah, for introducing William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States.
0:16.5	Like other presidents before him, including John Quincy Adams, President Taft's biggest accomplishments
0:23.1	came both before and after his presidency. Taft graduated from Yale University and then attended
0:30.4	Cincinnati Law School. He practiced law and had his heart set on being on the Supreme Court.
0:38.6	William Howard Taft was destined to have a political career as he caught the attention of several
0:44.8	presidents. He served as Secretary of War and Attorney General under President Grant.
0:52.3	He served as a diplomat for President Arthur, Benjamin Harrison appointed
0:57.8	Taft the role of Solicitor General of the United States, and President McKinley made Taft the head
1:05.1	of the Philippines Commission. When President Roosevelt was re-elected for his second term in 1904, he appointed Taft as his Secretary of War.
1:16.6	William Howard Taft performed all of these tasks successfully and emerged as a favorite to represent the Republican Party at the completion of Roosevelt's second term.
1:30.1	Taft was not interested in being president, but was encouraged by his wife to pursue the presidency.
1:37.6	Taft agreed and ran as the Republican candidate in the election of 1908.
1:43.9	Despite his reluctance to campaign aggressively, William Howard Taft easily defeated William
1:50.1	Jennings Bryan to become the 27th president.
1:54.5	This marked William Jennings Bryan's third defeat running for president as he was defeated in the elections of 1896 and
2:04.1	1900. He decided not to run in 1904. Taft decided to continue Roosevelt's efforts in taking down
2:12.4	trusts. He went after the Standard Oil Company owned by John D. Rockefeller.
2:19.0	Taft was successful in taking down the Standard Oil Company, the biggest trust at that time.
2:25.1	Rockefeller retired that year and decided to donate $500 million of his fortune to charities.
2:33.1	Taft then set his sights on the U.S. Steel Corporation and its
2:37.6	President J.P. Morgan, who successfully made the U.S. Steel Corporation the first billion-dollar company
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