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INTRODUCTION
1. Helen Herron Taft, Recollections of Full Years (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1914), 61, https://archive.org/details/recollectionsfu02taftgoog.
2. Ibid., 61–62.
3. “Presidential Historians Survey 2017,” C-SPAN, https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2017/?page=overall [https://perma.cc/YUV8-LFVL].
4. Roy M. Mersky and Albert P. Blaustein, Survey (1993), reprinted in William G. Ross, “The Ratings Game: Factors That Influence Judicial Reputation,” Marquette Law Review 79 (1996): app. I.
5. William Howard Taft, Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence, and Its Perils, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 5, ed. David Potash and Donald F. Anderson (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003), 100.
6. Henry F. Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, vol. 1 (Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1986), 100.
7. Alpheus Thomas Mason, William Howard Taft: Chief Justice (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965), 13.
8. Jonathan Lurie, William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), xii.
9. Lawrence F. Abbott, ed., Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, vol. 1 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930), 298.
10. William Howard Taft, “Speech Accepting the Nomination for the Presidency by the Republican National Committee,” Aug. 1, 1912, in The Republican Campaign Text-Book, Republican National Committee (1912): 11, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hw2hd8.
11. Alpheus Thomas Mason, “President By Chance, Chief Justice By Choice,” American Bar Association Journal 55 (1969): 39.
12. William Howard Taft, “Address at Georgia State Fair Grounds on Wisdom and Necessity of Following the Law,” Nov. 4, 1909, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 3, ed. David H. Burton (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002), 323.
13. Theodore Roosevelt, “The Presidency; Making an Old Party Progressive,” in An Autobiography (1858–1919) (New York: Macmillan, 1913; Bartleby.com, 1998), http://www.bartleby.com/55/10.html [https://perma.cc/J5DT-CVJP].
14. William Howard Taft, The President and His Powers, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 6, ed. W. Carey McWilliams and Frank X. Gerrity (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003), 104. (Originally published in 1916 as Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers.)
15. George Will, “Speech at the National Constitution Center’s Madisonian Commission Launch,” Apr. 13, 2017, C-SPAN, https://www.c-span.org/video/?426869-1/national-constitution-center-marks-freedom-day.
16. William Howard Taft, Liberty Under Law: An Interpretation of the Principles of Our Constitutional Government, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 8, ed. Francis Graham Lee (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004), 5.
17. Ibid., 5–7.
18. Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013), 26.
19. Mason, Taft: Chief Justice, 39.
20. Phil Edwards, “The Truth about William Howard Taft’s Bathtub,” TriviaHappy, June 25, 2014, https://triviahappy.com/articles/the-truth-about-william-howard-tafts-bathtub [https://perma.cc/RK72-BRQY]; Alexis Coe, “William Howard Taft Is Still Stuck in the Tub,” New York Times, Sept. 15, 2017.
21. Scott Bomboy, “Clearing up the William Howard Taft Bathtub Myth,” Constitution Daily, Feb. 6, 2013, http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/02/why-william-howard-taft-was-probably-never-stuck-in-his-bathtub/ [https://perma.cc/8BL2-S6HU].
22. Edwards, “Taft’s Bathtub.”
23. “Friends Amused by Taft Bath Story,” Enterprise, Nov. 3, 1909, in “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers,” Library of Congress, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025323/1909-11-03/ed-1/seq-7/.// [https://perma.cc/3GPA-9EAE].
24. “Taft Causes Hotel Deluge,” New York Times, June 19, 1915, 6.
25. Dan Steinberg, “Nats Will Name William Howard Taft New Racing President,” Washington Post, Jan. 25, 2013, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2013/01/25/nats-will-name-william-howard-taft-new-racing-president/?utm_term=.4f94251ef41e [https://perma.cc/R65U-ST8L].
26. Pringle, Taft, vol. 1, 20.
27. Henry F. Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, vol. 2 (Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1986), 1072.
28. Andrew Dolan, The Taft Diet: How President Taft Lost 76 Pounds (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012), 19, Kindle.
29. Ibid., 41.
30. Ibid., 47.
31. Ibid., 48.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid., 105–6.
34. John G. Sotos, MD, “Taft and Pickwick: Sleep Apnea in the White House,” CHEST 124, no. 3 (Sept. 2003): 1133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.124.3.1133.
35. Ibid., 1135.
36. Ibid., 1138.
37. Ibid., 1137.
38. Lurie, Taft: Travails of a Progressive Conservative, 63 n.115.
39. William Howard Taft, “He Who Conquers Himself Is Greater than He Who Taketh a City,” Address at Union Religious Service in Fresno City Hall Park, Oct. 10, 1909, in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 3, 264.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid., 266.
42. Lurie, Taft: Travails of a Progressive Conservative, x–xi.