Appointment Quotes
Note that his beginning of the quote mimics General Sherman’s famous quotation about the Presidency.
She had used a number of different designers for her wardrobe until she was criticized for having no consistent theme and look. It was decided that she should select one as her fashion consultant and she choose Cassini and had to tell the others that they were no longer needed. See {592752} for a John Adams related quote.
This part of Taft’s Inaugural Address shocked the South and much of the North. But these were the days when the Republican Party was the liberal party on racial issues and the Democratic Party housed most racists and bigots. On this, the parties would flip flop after the Democrats passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Bill. Both Taft and TR were racial liberals and the South coalesced around Woodrow Wilson, an intellectual but an inveterate racist.
The President wanted to appoint his political confidant, Harry Daugherty, as Attorney General, but ran into heavy opposition from the Bar Association and the press:
Complaining about his lack of influence over patronage jobs:
