William Howard Taft Quotes
I am not sure that I can make the epigrams that you are hunting for. The truth is you have a pretty old horse to run and you’ve got to take me as I am.
Campaign managers are always trying to get their candidates to do something new or change something. See {600677} for an Example with President Eisenhower. He was a little more flexible than Taft was. His campaign manager wanted him to tell some self deprecating jokes in his presentations, but he could not bring himself to do it, especially following Theodore Roosevelt who was a master at it.
William Howard Taft, 1857-1930, 27th President of the United States (Republican, OH), Response to his campaign manager, Arthur Vorys, who wanted him to add some jokes to his presentations, August 6, 1907
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Eisenhower had just finished making the first TV political commercials that had ever been used in a presidential election.
He had been asked about one of his recent major statements which insulted large numbers of Americans. See {631015} for some of the text that caused him so much trouble and triggered this very inelegant explanation.
- Born: September 15, 1857
- Died: March 8, 1930
- Nationality: American
- Profession: President
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for reelection by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, a position he held until a month before his death.
