William Taft actually said...

I am very sure that the Speaker of the House...is charged with a deep responsibility in regard to this great question.

Remarks at the Waterways Convention Held at the Atheneum in New Orleans, Louisiana

10/29/1909

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I shall not stop to discuss whether it might have been possible to accomplish the same great reform by milder methods.

We have made great progress, almost within our own memory, in such ideals.

Let us leave this beautiful city of the national dead, therefore, with the deepest gratitude to the men whose valorous deeds we celebrate.