The Presidents #27: William Howard Taft

[Ardent15]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft

Discuss him and his Presidency.

[FSogol]

1. Write your own paper.

;-)

[BlueIris]

2. Didn't actually want to be president. Only wanted to be on the Supreme Court. nt

[lordcommander]

3. The Only President to become Chief Justice

and sworn-in 2 presidents (Harding and Coolidge).

[smalll]

4. Fattest President ever!

A shade under six feet, he weighed well over 300 pounds at the end of his Presidency. This is one record that likely will never be broken, given the importance of image in our media-saturated society. (The reason why men like Chris Christie of New Jersey or Alan Grayson of Florida will never get anywhere near a Presidential nomination.)

[BlueIris]

5. I read he once got stuck in his bathtub.

But I don't actually know if that's true.

[Aristus]

6. Could be a myth. But it's no myth that they installed a bathtub in the White House big enough

for four average-sized men to accommodate Taft's girth...

[BlueIris]

7. Woah. That is one big freaking bathtub. nt

[Drunken Irishman]

8. Taft was Daft.

I'm sure that was a slogan back then, right?

[WI_DEM]

9. Created the US Dept of Labor. Ran third in the 1912 presidential election after Wilson & TR