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Oct 5, 2021 · Robert Alphonso Taft, the eldest son of the 27th President William Howard Taft, was one of the leaders of an unofficial conservative coalition. Regarding foreign policy, he supported isolationism until the attack on Pearl Harbor. After World War II, he opposed American participation in international organisations, including NATO.
Taft's biographer James T. Patterson provides much valuable material on the Senator's foreign policy views in Mr Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft (Boston 1972). Patterson has also written an essay somewhat sympathetic to Taft: 'Robert A. Taft and American Foreign Policy, 1939-1945', in L.P. Liggio and J.J. Martin (eds.), Watershed of Empire: Essays on New Deal Foreign Policy (Colorado ...
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Title Robert A. Taft papers, Summary Correspondence, speeches, writings, political and legislative files, subject files, business and financial records, family papers, and other papers relating primarily to Taft's career as a U.S. senator and to his role as a national leader in the Republican Party.
Robert Alphonso Taft was born on September 8, 1889, in Cincinnati, into one of Ohio `s most famous political families. His grandfather, Alphonso, had been President Ulysses S. Grant `s secretary of war. His father was William Howard Taft, later to become the 19th president of the United States. Robert Taft was a junior at Yale University when ...
v. t. e. William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but ...
laws, Taft accused him of "ballyhooing the foreign situation."10 "We should be prepared to defend our own shores," he wrote a 8 Frank A. Burd, "Robert A. Taft and the American Understanding o£ Politics" (doctoral dissertation, Univ. of Chicago, 1969); Russell Kirk and James McClellan, The Political Principles ο) Robert A. Taft (N.Y., 1967).
