Brigitte Bardot Quotes
Politics disgusts me.
He was not very good at it. Taft was an excellent Supreme Court Justice, and had good management skills, but could never get the hang of relating to people—the electorate or the Congress. He is the only major party presidential candidate to come in 3rd, and he was the incumbent. Administratively, he had not been a bad President but his poor people skills required him to pander to the right wing base of his own party and this angered his former mentor Theodore Roosevelt who ran against Taft in the Republican primary. Taft moved to the right still further and so angered TR that he ran against Taft as an independent in the general election. Woodrow Wilson won, but Roosevelt came in second and beat Taft handily.
The Congress was in a hyper-partisan gridelock and was unable to pass most legislation.
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot, often referred to by her initials B.B., is a French animal rights activist and former actress and singer. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated personae with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the best known sex symbols of the late 1950s and 1960s. Although she withdrew from the entertainment industry in 1973, she remains a major popular culture icon.
