“I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.”

— William Howard Taft

Address at the Hotel Fairmont in San Francisco (6 October 1909).

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American politician, 27th President of the United States (i… 1857–1930

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