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As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.
William Howard Taft
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William Howard Taft
Age: 72 †
Born: 1857
Born: September 15
Died: 1930
Died: March 8
27Th U.S. President
Judge
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Cincinnati
Ohio
William Taft
William H. Taft
President Taft
W. H. Taft
W. Taft
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Coal
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Next
Iron
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