In 1904<span>, Roosevelt made him Secretary of War, and he became Roosevelt's hand-picked successor. Despite his personal ambition to become chief justice, </span>Taft<span> declined repeated offers of</span>appointment<span> to the Supreme Court of the United States, believing his political work to be more important.</span>
of the movement of settlers onto the Great Plains. The aim of this was to assimilate Native American Indians into American culture.
<span>Romanticism rejected </span>the beliefs of the Enlightenment.
The answer is Colonel Edward House
