6Myth 5: Taft Did Nothing for Civil Rights
17Myth 16: Taft Did Not Influence the Modern GOP
7Myth 6: The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Was a Total Failure for Taft
18Myth 17: His Imposing Physique Symbolized His Inaction
8Myth 7: Taft Was a Timid Isolationist
19Myth 18: The 1912 Republican Convention Discredited Him Forever
9Myth 8: The Ballinger-Pinchot Dispute Ruined His Presidency
20Myth 19: Taft Was a Total Omission from Historiography
10Myth 9: Taft Had No Coherent Foreign Vision
21Myth 20: Taft's Conservatism Was Retrograde, Not Visionary
11Myth 10: Taft Was a Mediocre Jurist Who Became President by Accident
