William Taft actually said...

You will hardly believe me when I tell you that this ceremony and the burden that I am now trying to discharge came to me but to-day.

Remarks at the Dedication of the Gift Chapel at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas

10/16/1909

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