What ended President William H. Taft’s anti-trust efforts was the end of his term in office.
Throughout his administration President Taft consistently launched antitrust cases because he was inclined to believe that courts were to regulate trust activities and not the executive branch of the federal government.
<em>Taft’s asministration did much to continue many progressive measures initiated by Roosevelt and in fact he did more to regulate monopolies than Franklin D. Roosevelt. William Howard Taft was at one point even called “The Trust Buster” when he ordered the prosecution that broke up Standard Oil in 1911.</em>
The documents contained details about decisions to expand the war, and confirmed what many Americans had long believed: the government had not been honest with them.
