What if Robert Taft had been nominated in 1952?

The Republican might have won that year regardless. The Democrats had been in power through 1932 to 1952 - an amazingly long run, so we were ripe for change. read more

The Democrats had been in power through 1932 to 1952 - an amazingly long run, so we were ripe for change. If he had won I doubt we would have built the interstate highway system or moved in troops to desegregate schools, but its hard to know for sure. read more

They had four sons: William Howard Taft III (1915–1991), who became ambassador to Ireland; Robert Alphonso Taft Jr. (1917–1993), who was also elected to the U.S. Senate; Lloyd Bowers Taft (1923–1985), who worked as an investment banker in Cincinnati, and Horace Dwight Taft (1925–1983), who became a professor of physics and dean at Yale. read more