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{{quote|"I do not remember that I was ever President."|'''William Howard Taft''', reflecting on his career as Chief Justice}}
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* [[Big Eater]]: He was prone to this when stressed. He had a diet for combating the weight gain he switched to whenever his weight was getting dangerously unhealthy that still let him eat a lot, but was more healthy for him long-term.
* [[Big Fun]]: He was a jolly, genial man according to all accounts, not to mention a big baseball fan.
* [[Discontinuity]]: His own take on his being President is that it didn't happen, mostly because he felt he had achieved much more as a judge than as President.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: To his enemies, though it was almost always other things aside from his weight that they didn't like.
* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: The weight gain he had came from the low periods of his life. When he was not in a bad place and doing work he enjoyed, he was much slimmer and healthier looking.
* [[Principles Zealot]]: Taft was an intensely fierce advocate of rules and settling things by rule of law, which is part of the reason he was happier as a judge than he was as President.
* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]]: The bit about him getting stuck in his own bathtub [https://web.archive.org/web/20160529063346/http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/02/why-william-howard-taft-was-probably-never-stuck-in-his-bathtub/ stemmed from a lot of assumption, mostly because his bathtub had a big crack in it at one point].
* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Used to be friends with [[Theodore Roosevelt]] until their political differences caused them to grow apart, a split [[Woodrow Wilson]] took advantage of in the 1912 elections. They did manage to reconcile before Roosevelt's death.
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