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Wrigley Field is a baseball park located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is the home of the Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two Major League Baseball franchises. It first opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park for Charles Weeghman's Chicago Whales of the Federal League, which folded after the 1915 baseball season. The Cubs played their first home game at the park on April 20, 1916, defeating the Cincinnati Reds with a score of 7–6 in 11 innings. Chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. of the Wrigley Company acquired complete control of the Cubs in 1921. It was named Cubs Park from 1920 to 1926, before being renamed Wrigley Field in 1927. In the North Side community area of Lakeview in the Wrigleyville neighborhood, Wrigley Field is on an irregular block bounded by Clark and Addison Streets and Waveland and Sheffield Avenues. Wrigley Field is nicknamed The Friendly Confines, a phrase popularized by Mr. Cub, Hall of Fame shortstop and first baseman Ernie Banks. The oldest ...
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00:03:25: History
00:04:39: Renovation
00:07:14: Ongoing renovation
00:11:25: 100th Anniversary
00:12:14: Features
00:13:28: Ivy-covered outfield walls
00:16:54: Dimensions
00:18:57: Rooftop seats
00:24:08: Unusual wind patterns
00:27:28: Hand-turned scoreboard
00:31:04: Main entry marquee
00:34:00: Lights
00:37:07: Baseball
00:37:30: Football
00:43:50: Soccer
00:44:35: Hockey
00:45:13: Other events
00:46:40: Corporate sponsorship
00:50:11: Outside venues
00:52:20: Legacy Partners
00:52:50: Win flag
00:55:02: Writing on the Wall
00:55:51: In popular culture
01:02:26: Accessibility and transportation
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List of federal political scandals in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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List of federal political scandals in the United States
00:00:10 1 Scope and organization of political scandals
00:02:50 2 Federal government scandals
00:03:00 2.1 Donald Trump administration (2017–present)
00:03:11 2.1.1 Executive Branch
00:08:36 2.1.2 Legislative Branch
00:11:53 2.1.3 Judicial Branch
00:12:12 2.2 Barack Obama administration (2009–2017)
00:12:24 2.2.1 Executive Branch
00:15:59 2.2.2 Legislative Branch
00:25:36 2.2.3 Judicial Branch
00:27:12 2.3 George W. Bush administration (2001–2009)
00:27:21 2.3.1 Executive Branch
00:45:15 2.3.2 Legislative Branch
00:52:39 2.4 Bill Clinton administration (1993–2001)
00:52:51 2.4.1 Executive Branch
00:54:44 2.4.2 Legislative Branch
00:59:56 2.5 George H. W. Bush administration (1989–1993)
01:00:05 2.5.1 Executive Branch
01:01:44 2.5.2 Legislative Branch
01:02:40 2.5.3 Judicial Branch
01:03:06 2.6 Ronald Reagan administration (1981–1989)
01:03:19 2.6.1 Executive Branch
01:15:06 2.6.2 Legislative Branch
01:19:52 2.6.3 Judicial Branch
01:20:21 2.7 James E. Carter administration (1977–1981)
01:20:30 2.7.1 Executive Branch
01:20:47 2.7.2 Legislative branch
01:23:29 2.7.3 Judicial
01:24:07 2.8 Gerald Ford administration (1974–1977)
01:24:20 2.8.1 Executive Branch
01:24:52 2.8.2 Legislative Branch
01:26:53 2.9 Richard M. Nixon administration (1969–1974)
01:27:02 2.9.1 Executive Branch
01:31:48 2.9.2 Legislative Branch
01:34:06 2.9.3 Judicial Branch
01:35:11 2.10 Lyndon B. Johnson administration (1963–1969)
01:35:20 2.10.1 Executive Branch
01:35:41 2.10.2 Legislative Branch
01:36:54 2.10.3 Judicial Branch
01:37:14 2.11 John F. Kennedy administration (1961–1963)
01:37:23 2.11.1 Legislative Branch
01:38:05 2.12 Dwight D. Eisenhower administration (1953–1961)
01:38:14 2.12.1 Executive Branch
01:39:09 2.12.2 Legislative Branch
01:40:29 2.13 Harry S. Truman administration (1945–1953)
01:40:38 2.13.1 Executive Branch
01:41:11 2.13.2 Legislative Branch
01:42:20 2.14 Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration (1933–1945)
01:42:34 2.14.1 Executive Branch
01:42:53 2.14.2 Legislative Branch
01:43:29 2.14.3 Judicial Branch
01:44:22 2.15 Herbert Hoover administration (1929–1933)
01:44:34 2.15.1 Legislative Branch
01:45:13 2.16 Calvin Coolidge administration (1923–1929)
01:45:25 2.16.1 Executive
01:45:57 2.16.2 Legislative
01:46:48 2.16.3 Judicial
01:47:08 2.17 Warren G. Harding administration (1921–1923)
01:47:16 2.17.1 Executive Branch
01:48:51 2.17.2 Legislative Branch
01:49:42 2.18 Woodrow Wilson administration (1913–1921)
01:49:55 2.18.1 Executive Branch
01:50:24 2.19 William Howard Taft administration (1909–1913)
01:50:37 2.19.1 Legislative Branch
01:51:13 2.19.2 Judicial Branch
01:51:43 2.20 Theodore Roosevelt administration (1901–1909)
01:51:56 2.20.1 Legislative Branch
01:52:40 2.20.2 Judicial Branch
01:53:01 2.21 William McKinley administration (1897–1901)
01:53:14 2.21.1 Executive Branch
01:53:55 2.21.2 Legislative Branch
01:54:35 2.22 Grover Cleveland administration (1885–1889)
01:54:47 2.22.1 Legislative Branch
01:55:09 2.23 Chester A. Arthur administration (1881–1885)
01:55:18 2.23.1 Executive Branch
01:55:49 2.24 James A. Garfield administration (1881–1881)
01:55:58 2.24.1 Legislative Branch
01:56:21 2.25 Rutherford B. Hayes administration (1877–1881)
01:56:30 2.25.1 Executive Branch
01:56:50 2.25.2 Judicial Branch
01:57:28 2.26 Ulysses S. Grant administration (1869–1877)
01:57:37 2.26.1 Executive Branch
01:59:45 2.26.2 Legislative Branch
02:00:53 2.26.3 Judicial Branch
02:01:54 2.27 Andrew Johnson administration (1865–1869)
02:02:07 2.27.1 Executive branch
02:02:25 2.28 Abraham Lincoln administration (1861–1865)
02:02:38 2.28.1 Executive Branch
02:03:15 2.28.2 Legislative Branch
02:04:05 2.29 James Buchanan administration (1857–1861)
02:04:18 2.29.1 Legislative Branch
02:05:01 2.30 Zachary Taylor administration (1849–1850)
02:05:13 2.30.1 Executive Branch
02:05:44 2.31 Andrew Jackson administrations (1829–1836)
02:05:57 2.31.1 Executive Branch
02:06:41 2.31.2 Legislative Branch
02:07:07 2.32 James Monroe administrations (1817–1824)
02:07:20 2.32.1 Legislative Branch
02:07:36 2.33 Thomas Jefferson administrations (1801–1808)
02:07:48 2.33.1 Executive Branch
02:08:36 2.33.2 Judicial Branch
02:09:08 2.34 John Adams administration (1797–1800)
02:09:20 2.34.1 Executive Branch
02:09:49 2.34.2 Legislative Branch
02:10:18 2.35 George Washington administration (1789–1796)
02:10:30 2.35.1 Legislative Branch
02:10:49 2.36 Government under the Articles of Confederation (1777–1788)
02:11:03 2.36.1 Executive Branch
02:11:24 2.36.2 Legislative Branch
02:11:47 3 See also
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William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, a position in which he served until a month before his death.
Taft was born in Cincinnati in 1857. His father, Alphonso Taft, was a U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of War. Taft attended Yale and, like his father, was a member of Skull and Bones. After becoming a lawyer, he was appointed a judge while still in his twenties. He continued a rapid rise, being named Solicitor General and as a judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1901, President William McKinley appointed Taft civilian governor of the Philippines. In 1904, Roosevelt made him Secretary of War, and he became Roosevelt's hand-picked successor. Despite his personal ambition to become chief justice, Taft declined repeated offers of appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States, believing his political work to be more important.
With Roosevelt's help, Taft had little opposition for the Republican nomination for president in 1908 and easily defeated William Jennings Bryan for the presidency that November. In the White House, he focused on East Asia more than European affairs and repeatedly intervened to prop up or remove Latin American governments. Taft sought reductions to trade tariffs, then a major source of governmental income, but the resulting bill was heavily influenced by special interests. His administration was filled with conflict between the conservative wing of the Republican Party, with which Taft often sympathized, and the progressive wing, toward which Roosevelt moved more and more. Controversies over conservation and antitrust cases filed by the Taft administration served to further separate the two men. Roosevelt challenged Taft for renomination in 1912. Taft used his control of the party machinery to gain a bare majority of delegates and Roosevelt bolted the party. The split left Taft with little chance of re-election and he took only Utah and Vermont in Wilson's victory.
After leaving office, Taft returned to Yale as a professor, continuing his political activity and working against war through the League to Enforce Peace. In 1921, President Harding appointed Taft as chief justice, an office he had long sought. Chief Justice Taft was a conservative on business issues and under him there were advances in individual rights. In poor health, he resigned in February 1930. After his death the next month, he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, the first president and first Supreme Court justice to be interred there. Taft is generally listed near the middle in historians' rankings of U.S. presidents.