I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE MAJOR PART OF THE WORK OF A PRESIDENT IS TO INCREASE THE GATE RECEIPTS OF EXPOSITIONS AND FAIRS AND BRING TOURISTS TO TOWN: The Washington Nationals will announce tomorrow that
William Howard Taft ("Bill"/"Big Chief") will join the Rushmore Four of George, Tom, Abe, and Teddy as the newest Racing President. Not Kennedy, not Reagan, not Van Buren, not Bartlet. Damn.
If they love me, they'll have him race while wearing a bathtub.
ReplyDeleteThat's an excellent point.
ReplyDeleteSo he anticipated the most positive rule change in baseball history, outside of making sure the balls are white?
ReplyDeleteC'mon - you get stuck in your tub on the morning of your inauguration? You kind of just have to take that ribbing for the rest of eternity.
ReplyDeleteUrban legend. The tub cracked when it was being moved so they took the opportunity to put in a larger one in the White House.
ReplyDeleteExcuse me, do you think I didn't do my homework?
ReplyDeletehttp://books.google.com/books?id=cVrxbeRmlqgC&pg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=false
DO NOT TEST THE LIBRARIAN.
ReplyDeleteNot sourced in the book though.
ReplyDeleteNot my problem. At a certain point, you just have to trust the Harvard-educated, well-respected historian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chace
ReplyDeleteSurely we're not going to let the current unavailability of reliable sworn eyewitness from the Taft administration get in the way of a story this good?
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