Two actions by President William Howard Taft that angered Theodore Roosevelt were Taft's decision to support the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, which raised tariffs instead of lowering them as Roosevelt had advocated, and his dismissal of Gifford Pinchot, the head of the U.S. Forest Service, over a dispute regarding conservation policies. These actions signaled a departure from Roosevelt's progressive agenda and contributed to a rift between the two former allies.
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