Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

A white cat wearing a bow labeled “Nomination” is being courted by other cats who represent potential candidates in the upcoming presidential election. Two other cats peer over walls in the background. Those depicted are Philander C. Knox, Leslie M. Shaw, Charles Evans Hughes, Charles W. Fairbanks, William H. Taft, Joseph Gurney Cannon, Joseph Benson Foraker, and George B. Cortelyou. In the background are Timothy L. Woodruff and Albert J. Beveridge.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-02-05

Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft stand in the center of a gathering of Roosevelt’s “officers.” Most are dressed as colonial army officers, with Charles J. Bonaparte dressed as Napoleon and John Burroughs as a frontiersman. All but Roosevelt are crying. Caption: Repetition, one year hence, of a famous scene in Fraunce’s Tavern.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-02-26

Theodore Roosevelt, wearing an athletic uniform with letters “B.S.A.C.” on the shirt, shoots a large basketball looking like and labeled “Taft” toward a basket labeled “Nomination.” Caption: Just a little basket ball practice in the White House gym.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-03-04

President Roosevelt believes Beach and Noyes are fine men, and will wait to see whom Secretary of War Taft chooses.

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Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1907-07-02

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt wants to know if Gifford Pinchot would object if Roosevelt wrote to Henry Wallace about a misunderstanding of the word “upright,” which Roosevelt used in a speech regarding William H. Taft.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-12-30

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt appears as Naomi and William H. Taft as Ruth from the biblical story of loyalty. Caption: Ruth Taft. — Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy policies shall be my policies.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-03-25

President Roosevelt insists that he did not ask Secretary of War Taft to put Cabot Ward on the Philippine Commission. Regardless, positions on the committee are filled by extensive searches rather than suggestions. Roosevelt tells Anna Roosevelt Cowles that he does not think highly of any biography about him; however, he feels that Francis E. Leupp has written the best of them.

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Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1908-07-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt states that he has always supported George Leavens Lilley because Roosevelt believed Lilley faced a “very corrupt gang”. Roosevelt is also amused by what Anna Roosevelt Cowles has told him about the Reids, and he is unsure how William H. Taft will handle the situation. He and Edith have also enjoyed William Sheffield Cowles’s visit.

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Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1908-11-10

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Edward Henry Harriman, in the Scottish Highlands, stands with arms and sword raised next to a diamond-shaped rock labeled “Flim-Flam Finance” balancing on a pointed base. Harriman is confronting Theodore Roosevelt and his band of Scotsmen, William H. Taft, Charles J. Bonaparte, Frank B. Kellogg, James Rudolph Garfield, and Milton Dwight Purdy. Caption: Fitzjames Harriman (to Teddy Dhu) — Come one, come all! This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I!

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-09-11

Theodore Roosevelt stands in a mountain of mail, mostly postcards from William H. Taft, showing places “Bill” has visited during his worldly travels. Caption: T.R. (in despair) — I might have known that Bill would get the habit.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-09-25

Theodore Roosevelt, wearing a military uniform with the Japanese Imperial seal on the hat and holding a rifle, stands behind the “Park Row Earth Works,” as two rolled-up newspapers labeled “Sun” and “World” with rifles charge the earthworks. The background shows the war flag of the Japanese Imperial Army. Caption: “The war talk is due entirely to newspapers, which seek to increase their sales, and which for political reasons attack the Government.”–Taft at Tokio.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-10-23

President Roosevelt writes to William Woodville Rockhill, ambassador to China, to ask that Rockhill and his wife take care of Alice Roosevelt on her upcoming venture to the Orient. Roosevelt also asks for information on the “smashing overthrow” of the Russian naval fleet, specifically what military arms were used to execute the mission.

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Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1905-05-31

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has been under pressure from financial and political interests, but has already agreed that the cabinet position belongs to William H. Taft. Roosevelt is put off by such attempts to influence his decisions and is disgusted by the role some newspapers, including the Sun and the Journal, have tried to play in the process.

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Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1903-08-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Minister Rockhill for relaying information on the Dalai Lama. Roosevelt also states that he will not be giving any appointment recommendations to incoming President William H. Taft.

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Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1908-12-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt, perspiring profusely, tries to keep a spinning William H. Taft labeled “Taft Boom” aloft with a “Diabolo,” by catching him on a string strung between two sticks and tossing him up again.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-12-11

Theodore Roosevelt examines the campaigning of President William H. Taft and the endorsements Taft has received from prominent newspapers, such as the Chicago Evening Post, the National Republican Party, and voters across the country. Roosevelt questions the President’s credibility, his means of obtaining voters’ support, and the truthfulness of his record.

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Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1912-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt sets a back-fire with the face of William H. Taft, to break the progress of a fire labeled “3rd Term” with the face of Roosevelt in the background.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-08-28

A shy Theodore Roosevelt, as John Alden, talks to Priscilla Mullins, labeled “Republican Party” and sitting before a fireplace, with spinning wheel nearby. William H. Taft, as Miles Standish, stands outside the door. Caption: Priscilla — Why don’t you speak for yourself, Theodore?

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-04-24

William H. Taft is globe-trotting from the “Washington White House” to the “Guam White House,” the “Philippine White House,” the “Hawaiin [sic] White House,” the “Cuban White House,” and the “Porto [sic] Rican White House.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-05-08

A bloated William Jennings Bryan, with a paper extending from his pocket labeled “Membership Fat Man’s Club. W.J. Bryan,” rides a diminutive Democratic donkey, while an even larger William H. Taft rides a diminutive “G.O.P” elephant. Caption: A case for the S.P.C.A.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-05-22