“The truth is that in my present life I don’t remember that I ever was president.”

— William Howard Taft

Correspondence (1925), quoted in James Chace (2004), 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs

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

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