Tag: William H. Taft

  • 100 Years Since Taft's 'Open Door' Speech, Remembering Diplomacy

    I was delighted today to find a print edition of today’s International Herald Tribune in Beijing, a feat I thought impossible until the couple next to me drinking coffee could be seen peering over the top of their IHTs and deriding Thomas Friedman’s column (which curiously isn’t in today’s edition). I asked where they’d gotten…