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We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate instead of which they changed me.
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
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