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[|Taft]
__**Domestic Policy**__

longly debated with progressives and conservatives Legislation** Taft was a conservative judge who distrusted reform legislation that he believed too radical.
 * Party Politics (Charlie Seiler)

to adjust the economy had income tax created federal budgets
 * Economy**

- He didn't address it and did not do anything about it or deal with it
 * Civil Rights**

(Renee Campanell) -Wanted Congress to take lead and refused to extend executive or federal powers without approval from Congress -1929- Taft argued that a Supreme Court Building should be build because the court needs distance away from Congress as a separate brance of government. He used his effort to dispute many important issues with congress.
 * Relations w/ Congress**

(Renee Campanell) He was not one for big social issues -He supported imperialism and "white superiority" in the Phillipines -Advocated peace during WWI
 * Social Issues**

- People also had popular indignation and it was so great that the 1916 election brought in tons of democrats - Public thought he was getting rid of the square/his public opinion worsened overtime
 * Public Image**

had a hard time getting support he had originally wanted to be a supreme court judge, not a president
 * Leadership**


 * __Foreign Policy__**

Taft pursued what he called the "dollar diplomacy" to increase the economic development of less-developed nations of Latin America and Asia through American investment in their infrastructures Dollar Diplomacy - to further U.S.'s foreign policy aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
 * Latin America** (Charlie Seiler)


 * International Organizations and Agreements**