Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dusk before President Hoover returned to the White House. As he stepped out of his car, Major Domo Irwin ("Ike") Hoover hurried up to him, said: "Mr. President, Mr. Taft has just died." (See p. 17.) The President stepped quickly back into his automobile, was driven to No. 2215 Wyoming...
...becomes my sad duty to announce officially the death of William Howard Taft. ... A service of rare distinction, a purity of patriotism...
Next day, Robert and Charles Taft, sons of the 27th President of the U. S., called upon President Hoover, spent an hour talking funeral plans. Their father had wanted no public display. They agreed that his body might lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda for three hours where the public could view it. Later a simple service would be held at All Souls' Unitarian Church on 16th Street where Mr. Taft regularly worshipped. The sons left the White House to motor across the Potomac with Col. Hodges to Arlington National Cemetery. There they selected an interment plot...
...Burial in Arlington is restricted to Army and Navy veterans and their immediate family. Mr. Taft qualified because he had been Secretary of War under President Roosevelt, Commander-in-Chief of the Army & Navy as President. No other President lies in Arlington...
Citizen Coolidge journeyed eastward to his Massachusetts home. When he arrived in New York he found himself the only living ex-President of the U. S. but he did not "expect" to attend the Taft funeral...