William Howard Taft

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    I like the Taft idea… it would be great to have a president in our HOF… add some class to this place.<br />
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    Taft was mentioned in a email I got before we started the bboard nomination method. The first thing I found when I did a little research was this:<br />
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    <blockquote>Alphonso Taft’s wife, the former Louise Torrey, wrote of her son William a few weeks after he was born: "He is very large of his age and grows fat every day." The words were prophetic, for Taft as an adult weighed 300 pounds or more, the heaviest of any president.</blockquote><br />
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    And if I remember correctly, C. Montgomery Burns once made reference that his mother had an affair with Taft!<br />
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    As the second largest President, I think beer-drinking, cigar-chomping, gout-suffering Grover Cleveland might be worth looking into as well.<br />
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    Dave

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