President William H. Taft's Character

A Historian Summarizes President William H. Taft's Character

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Mark Sullivan, twentieth-century journalist and historian wrote this summary of the character of President William H. Taft: "Taft was not a bad President; he was a good one. He had absolute integrity; he was honest—simply honest, transparently honest.

"Taft was high-minded, just-minded, clean-minded, clear-minded; no lawyer or judge of his time could excel the sure-mindedness with which he thumbed through great stacks of legal papers, his mind absorbing their contents, his judgment finding the gist.

​"Taft was clear-minded and discriminating about men, too, and could on occasion exercise a unique power of characterization—one of the insurgent senators he described as “so narrow he can see through a key-hole with both eyes at once without squinting.”

​Taft's appointments to the bench and to executive positions were above the average."

Mark Sullivan, Journalist and Historian

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