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Differences Of William Taft And Franklin D. Roosevelt
William Taft and Franklin D. Roosevelt were total opposites when it came to their personality and humanity. William Taft expanded the limits of his Precedential power to keep African Americans and immigrants in their place. During his inaugural address, Taft said that would not hire anymore African Americans to federal Jobs like a mailman or postmaster position. This would cause a problem for any African American that was already employed at a Federal Facility. Taft wanted to keep the African Americans in their place. Taft fails to follow the humanitarian mission historically associated with the Republican Party. This is what caused African Americans to move toward the Democratic Party.

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