Taft succeeded Roosevelt and became our 27th President.
Taft kept many of Roosevelt's old polices such as trust busting. However despite progressive thinking, Taft often fumbled in polices, which alienated people in his own party. Not to mention campaign contributors and independents. Even Teddy Roosevelt felt humiliated by his successor.
He was also another Republican who supported Civil Rights, but did nothing to prevent Southern racists from denying black people the right to vote or from lynching. He did veto a law requiring all immigrants to take a literacy test. That was a good move since immigration is what this country was always made of.
Taft also saw the passage of the 16th amendment which gave the government a full-right to tax income. Though still controversial today, I consider it a good move. We just need to reform the system today, but that is now, this was back then.
Aside from that, Taft didn't too do terribly much else. A very flawed president in many ways, and even though I consider him a bit of a failure I can still respect his intentions.
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