William Taft #10: Dreams Do Come True (1920-1930); Topics covered include: 1920 Election, Warren Harding offers Taft a position on the Supreme Court, appointed Chief Justice, reforms for the Federal judiciary, specific cases of note, Taft becomes ill, resigns from the Court, his death, and perspective

Key people: Warren Harding, Edward White, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harry Daugherty, John Marshall, Frank Myers, Andrew Johnson, Edwin Stanton, Ray Olmstead, Louis Brandeis, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Robert Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, and Helen Taft

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William Taft #9: Professor, Rapprochement, and Peace (1913-1920); Topics covered include: Leaves the presidency, law professor at Yale, World War I, President Woodrow Wilson keeps the U.S. out of the war, election of 1916, rapprochement for Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, League to Enforce Peace, Treaty of Versailles, and the League of Nations including Taft's advocacy and its failure to pass in the U.S. Senate

Key people: Nellie Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Evans Hughes, and Henry Cabot Lodge

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William Taft #8: Rock Bottom (1910-1912); Topics covered include: President of the United States, difficulties mount, seeks free trade with Canada, seeks arbitration agreements with Britain and France, conflicts grow with Theodore Roosevelt including related to the Antitrust Suit against U.S. Steel, death of Archibald Butt on the Titanic, 1912 Election, Republican National Convention, Roosevelt breaks with the Republican Party and launches the Progressive Party, Taft is angry and depressed, Woodrow Wilson wins the election, and Taft's presidency ends

Key people: Theodore Roosevelt, JP Morgan, George Wickersham, Archibald Butt, Henry Allen, Woodrow Wilson, and Champ Clark

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William Taft #7: He's Not TR (1909-1910); Topics covered include: President of the United States, Special Session of Congress, Payne-Aldrich Tariff, conflict with progressives (tariff and conservation), rift with Theodore Roosevelt begins to grow, stress and weight gain, Roosevelt returns to the U.S., Roosevelt speaking tour including his "New Nationalism, change in Chief Justice, and Republicans lose badly in midterm elections

Key people: Theodore Roosevelt, Joe Cannon, Nelson Aldrich, Gifford Pinchot, Richard Ballinger, Archibald Butt, Melville Fuller, and Edward White

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William Taft #6: President Taft, Whether He Wants it or Not (1908-1909); Topics covered include: 1908 Election, Theodore Roosevelt endorsement for Taft, challenges with Taft as a campaigner, electoral victory, Cabinet selections, Inauguration, addition of Military Aide Archibald Butt, Nellie Taft as First Lady including her stroke, and the National Cherry Blossom Festival

Key people: Theodore Roosevelt, Nellie Taft, John Sherman, William Jennings Bryan, Charlie Taft (brother), James Garfield, Richard Ballinger, Archibald Butt, and Elizabeth Jaffray

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William Taft #5: Roosevelt's Jack-of-all-Trades (1904-1908); Topics covered include: Secretary of War, crisis at the Panama Canal, congressional tour to the Philippines, Elihu Root returns as Secretary of State ("The Three Musketeers"), turns down Supreme Court appointment again, crisis in Cuba, world tour including the opening of the First National Assembly in the Philippines, and death of Taft's mother

Key people: Theodore Roosevelt, Nellie Taft, William Gorgas, George Goethals, Alice Longworth, John Hay, Elihu Root, Harry Brown, Tomas Palma, and Louisa Taft

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William Taft #4: Duty Calls - Dream Denied (1901-1904); Topics covered include: Inauguration as Governor-General of the Philippines, move into the Malacanan Palace, work on behalf of the Filipino people, President William McKinley assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt becomes President, Taft suffers from an abdominal abscess, returns home to rest and testify to Congress, trip to the Vatican, return to the Philippines as a hero, offered position on the Supreme Court (twice) and turns it down (both times), agrees to become Secretary of War, and leaves the Philippines

Key people: William McKinley, Emilio Aguinaldo, Arthur MacArthur, Leon Czolgolsz, Theodore Roosevelt, Luke Wright, Nellie Taft, Robert Taft, Louisa Taft, Pope Leo XIII, and Elihu Root

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William Taft #3: The Philippines? (1900-1901); Topics covered include: Federal a Judge, Spanish-American War, resigns from the Bench to lead Philippine Commission, becomes Governor-General of the Philippines, positive engagement with the Filipino people ("policy of attraction"), gains their trust, election of 1900, and the end of the Filipino insurrection

Key people: William McKinley, Elihu Root, Emilio Aguinaldo, Dean Worcester, Bernard Moses, Henry Ide, Luke Wright, Nellie Taft, Arthur MacArthur, and William Jennings Bryan

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William Taft #2: Judge Taft (1889-1899); Topics covered include: Judge of the Ohio Superior Court, move to Washington, Solicitor General, friends with Theodore Roosevelt, birth of children, death of father, and appointed Federal Judge (6th Circuit)

Key people: Benjamin Harrison, Nellie Taft, Robert Taft, Helen Taft, Charlie Taft, Alphonso Taft, and Frank Phelan

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William Taft #1: Lofty Expectations (1857-1889); Topics covered include: Youth, education (including Yale and Cincinnati Law School), Assistant Prosecutor of Hamilton County, Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District, Marries Helen (Nellie) Herron, and becomes Judge of the Ohio Superior Court

Key people: Alphonso Taft, Louisa Taft, Ulysses Grant, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Nellie (Herron) Taft, Judson Harmon, and Joseph Foraker

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