The Election Of 1912: William Howard Taft vs. Woodrow Wilson vs. Theodore Roosevelt vs. Eugene V. Debs
Intro: Hello and welcome back to another edition of the presidential election series as I'll be talking about the election of 1912 and this one has everything you could possibly imagine: multiple candidates, bad blood and an assassination attempt on the campaign trail...So strap yourselves in folks, because this race going to be a crazy one. The Presidency of William Howard Taft After winning the election of 1908 mainly due to being Roosevelt's handpicked successor, the newly elected President Taft was now in a position he never wanted to begin with, but attempted to make the best out of it. Taft's time in office came be divided in a three categories: Foreign Affairs Domestic Policies Issues within his administration Let's start with the foreign policies...President Taft made a staunch effort to not use military force in order to spread American influence aboard, but instead he wished to use arbitration in order to settle issues that would make both sides happy and als