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William Howard Taft

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William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and the tenth chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930. He is the only person to have held both offices.

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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.