You realize that the Taft family has a longer Yale (and Skull and Bones—which Alphonso Taft helped found) tradition than the Bush family?
Well, their supporters at the 1952 GOP convention sure didn't. They supported Bob Taft as the Main Street candidate, only to see the New York lawyers (repping for Old Money) screw them again by pulling Dwight Eisenhower out of a hat ....(thus wrote Theodore White, years later).... and getting Sen. Dick Nixon of California to be their messenger boy and backstairs amanuensis, in traducing Gov. Earl Warren of California into delivering the California delegates for Ike. Warren, of course, got the Chief Justiceship. What odds Ike made a "damn fool mistake" in nominating him, like he said so memorably?
And then, of course, Ike tried to drop Dick. Twice, as I recall.
And then Ike told Dick not to contest the Cook County graveyard vote in 1960; it was more important, said Ike, that no dirt attach to the presidency, and that the People not be scandalized. So Dick folded his tent quietly despite the pleas from his supporters to sue, to demand an investigation. Never mind that the guy with the shovel digging up all those graveyard votes was Sam Giancana himself, "Momo" the Mobster, and one of the most unsavory men ever to have dealings at only two degrees of separation from the President.
"Momo", by the way, died with his shoes on ..... six .22-caliber bullets in the face, very professional hit, about the time his name came up in an investigation.