Richard Lim on William Howard Taft's Overlooked Presidential Legacy
Showing 4 William Howard Taft videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Historian Richard Lim examined the presidency of William Howard Taft, America's heaviest president, arguing his legal and administrative accomplishments deserve more attention than his reputation as merely the fall guy in his falling out with predecessor and mentor Theodore Roosevelt. That rift, detailed in a companion video, drove Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose third-party campaign, split the Republican vote, and ultimately handed the presidency to Woodrow Wilson. Other videos in this pool include Charlie Kirk's defense of Trump against Oxford academics who compared him to Hitler and Weimar Germany, and a profile of Wilson's transformation of the American presidency.