On march 4th, 1909, republican William Howard taft was sworn in as the 27th president of the United States of america. Hed been solicitor general and a successful secretary of war for four years. An obvious choice. But theres a problem. Taft doesnt want to be president. Taft is not really a politician. In fact, taft admitted to his wife he hated politics. Taft is a very figure but hes a lawyer and had been a judge and really his greatest ambition was never to be president. It was to be Supreme Court justice. Two people that pushed taft in the running for the top job. One was his wife nelly. She visited the white house as a teenager and like most people she was very taken with it. She said i want to marry a man who will be president and she was constantly urging him to do the things to make it possible for him to be president. The other person who wanted taft in the oval office was his predecessor as president , his close friend, colleague and mentor, Theodore Roosevelt. They had been v
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