William Howard Taft, the only man to serve as U.S. president and chief justice of the Supreme Court, undoubtedly pulled his weight, politically.Still, there’s no truth to the rumor that Taft, a hefty man who tipped the scales at well over 300 pounds, once got stuck in the White House bathtub.The bathtub myth was dispelled for me by a ranger at the William Howard Taft National Historic Site at Taft’s boyhood home in the Mount Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati. I learned a [...]
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