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...ground commemorating Artist Francis Millet and Archibald Willingham Butt. Since the only other such commemoration on the grounds is the statue of Andrew Jackson, the fountain bore investigating. Archie Butt, it turns out, was a popular bachelor who served as White House military aide for both Theodore Roosevelt and Taft. Returning from a vacation in Europe with his friend Millet, he booked passage on the Titanic. Butt would have continued to elude historians had he not left three volumes of intimate correspondence of his years in the White House. To Author Seale, Archie Butt is a genuine hero...
Lowell's convictions, however, were those of his class (he was one of those Lowells who, via the Cabots, "talk only to God," and it was in his office that a visitor was told, "President Lowell has gone to Washington to call on Mr. Taft"). When the Governor of Massachusetts asked Lowell to head a committee to determine whether the patently unfair trial of Sacco and Vanzetti had in fact been fair, Lowell concluded that it had. And when bigoted alumni kept complaining about the number of Jews at Harvard (the proportion had reached 22% by 1922), Lowell publicly called...
Secretary of State George Shultz and the Pentagon's number two official, Deputy Defense Secretary William H. Taft, did acknowledge the United States had hoped the strike might foster an internal revolt against Khadafy. Taft also said the United States was "certainly prepared" to deal with the consequences of killing khadafy during the raid, but stressed the administration...
...prepared for [Khadafy's] response and we will react depending on what it is," said Taft, who was interviewed for a Voice of America program...
...production team huddling around Writer Shelton as he draws ploys in the practice-field dirt with his finger. Hey, guys, get this! A dozen years ago, Jack Dundee (Robin Williams) drops what would have been the game-winning pass from Reno Hightower (Kurt Russell), the best quarterback in Taft High School history. It was more than a ball Jack bobbled. It was the only decent chance Taft ever had to beat big, bad Bakersfield down the road and restore a sense of pride in a town known mainly for plagues of mice and seagulls. Reno has passed the years customizing...