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Bill Taft: “When the People of the United States elected me President, they placed me in an office of the highest dignity and…”

On the recordJanuary 6, 1910
When the People of the United States elected me President, they placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Letter to Chief of the United States Forest Service Gifford Pinchot Notifying Him of His Dismissal from Office

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