1. President Taft faced conflicts with progressives over tariff policy and conservation issues. He fired Gifford Pinchot, the head of the US Forest Service, after Pinchot exposed that Taft's Secretary of the Interior had given special treatment to business interests regarding federal land. 2. Former president Theodore Roosevelt split from the Republican party in 1912 to form the Progressive or "Bull Moose" party, challenging Taft for the Republican nomination. He lost the nomination to Taft. 3. In the four-way 1912 election between Republican Taft, Progressive Roosevelt, and Democrat Woodrow Wilson, Wilson won based on his "New Freedom" platform of enforcing antitrust laws and trust-bust