My dear Clara,” Major Archie Butt wrote in the summer of 1911, “It seems that the White House is haunted.” So began what ...

On March 8, 1930, William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States, died at age 72. And before you ask the question: no, he did not die by getting stuck in a bathtub. In fact ...

No president embodied this philosophy more than William Howard Taft. Of course, it helped that Taft hadn’t wanted to be president in the first place. He wanted to be the chief justice.

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 ...

The most popular theory involves plump President William Howard Taft, the commander-in-beef ... by a poppy rendition of the 1960s Bruce Channel jukebox song “Hey! Baby,” performed by an Austrian named ...

Forget the political alliances and policy decisions made in the Oval Office; within the walls of the White House, some of the most fascinating bits of history were being cooked up in the kitchen.

Jane Addams and her network of women's groups persuaded President William Howard Taft to appoint a woman as ... increased from 47 years to 76 years. A baby born at the end of the century will ...

27th U.S. President William Howard Taft was a huge fan of she-crab soup, "possum and taters," and buttered steak for ...

At first soldiers laughed at the "baby adjutant," but not for long ... headed by rising Ohio Republican William Howard Taft. Resentful of what he saw as political interference in an essentially ...

It was William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States ... Ford dialed down Nixon’s gold and royal blue to a bright but mellow color scheme of yellow, baby blue, and terracotta. It is ...

Not since Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, both Republicans ... His mantra for one of his top policy priorities: “DRILL, BABY, DRILL.” Trump, who in the past cast climate ...