History of the United States II / Unit 6 USH2 0785 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Taft
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The idea
William Howard Taft, elected in nineteen oh eight, signed the Mann-Elkins Act of nineteen ten, extending the Interstate Commerce Commission's authority to telephones and telegraphs.
In practice
Taft firing Gifford Pinchot in the Ballinger-Pinchot affair over the sale of federal land.
Where people slip
Roosevelt, back from Africa, called Taft a fathead and a puzzlewit, and prepared to run again.
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