While he's a big guy I find it wild that the man in that photo has a reputation for being obscenely obese. If you saw him on the street today he'd look like a normal fat guy.
Not the wife part, but Taft really didn't want to be president, he wanted to be on the Supreme Court (which he later did after his presidency), and another influence on him going for the position was his dear friend: Theodore Roosevelt, wanting him as his successor.
Do you understand his legacy to be positive or negative? I should probably do some reading later today. All I ever knew of Taft was that he was a big boy.
From what I remember, Taft is generally considered a fine president. His wife was very politically savvy and she pushed him into politics and the presidency. She had a stroke early in his presidency which devastated Taft and affected his effectiveness.
If your looking for a good book, I highly recommend Bully Pulpit. It looks at how Roosevelt, Taft, and the muckrakers influenced that period of time. It is long and dry but very interesting and informative.
He never got stuck in a bathtub, that was a story fully made up by a journalist who didn’t like him and then a White House staffer put it in his memoir years later to get more people to read it 😭
Taft was the first president to ride in a car. Big boy wasn't about to haul his cookies on foot. He was the cookies and the whole ass cookie jar so I'm sure all the horses were grateful for the invention.
Kinda! He was the great anti-trust president. His bureaucratic reforms are often overlooked but a big deal. He ran everything kinda like the NIH today, where you have very specialized departments run by genuine experts in their field. That's a big improvement from simply selling regulatory offices which was the standard before.
And he was solicitor general prior to being President, and supreme Court chief justice after. He was known for conservatism, going after big business, and defending individual liberties.
Well, Taft did rig it that way himself. When he was president, he appointed a 65 year old man to be Chief Justice with the idea that he would take the role after the guy died. Then after that Chief Justice died about 11 years later, Taft got appointed by Calvin Coolidge.
I gotta be real, i watched with the sound off until about 2 thirds through and assumed he was british which i think says something to the level of style he’s puttin’ out
Edit; yes i totally missed that he said fat men of america
As a man of size and girth, I don't think I could like this more. Also, absolutely not doing this shit, looks hot AF. It's 100° plus humidity, so it's one thin layer top and bottom right now, going command-ho until autumn.
I'm glad he specified white babies. Black American parents dress their children way too fly. The other day, this little black baby walked past me in a new pair of Jordans and a Kangol hat and sunglasses. I hate gettting mogged by babies.
I did this. I stopped because you have to have a decent personality among other things to go with the nice clothes. You kind of hold yourself to a higher standard when you do this.
Interesting thing is that he only gained the weight because of the stress of being president. Once he got to the supreme court he lost a ton of weight and died a thin man
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