William Taft actually said...

I don't claim any credit for it, because a man who would not come to Columbia when he could, and enjoy such a festivity and welcome as this, does not understand a good thing when he sees it.

Context

Address at the Luncheon Tendered by South Carolinians in the House of Representatives of the State Capitol in Columbia,...

11/05/1909

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