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William Howard Taft ... Taft met with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Tar ... Taft was sworn in as president on March 4, 1909. Due to a winter storm that coated ...
The inauguration of William Howard Taft as the 27th president of the United States was held on Thursday, March 4, 1909, at the Senate chamber inside the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., instead of the regular East Portico due to a blizzard.
April 14 - Taft establishes the tradition of the president throwing the ceremonial first pitch. [18] April 22 - Leonard Wood takes office as Chief of Staff of the United States Army. April 25 - Taft nominates Charles Evans Hughes to the Supreme Court of the United States. May 2 - Horace Harmon Lurton is sworn in as an associate justice of the ...
President Gerald Ford being sworn in as the 38th president of The United States next to his wife Betty (C) and chief of Justice Warren Burger in Washington on August 10, 1974. Ford, who sought to ...
First president to appoint a former president (William Howard Taft) to the Supreme Court. [222] First president to give his inaugural address over an amplified system. [220] First president to own and install a radio in the White House. [220] First president to learn to drive a car. [223] First president to visit Canada while in office. [224]
Presidency of William Howard Taft March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1913 ... Taft was sworn in within the Senate Chamber rather than ... led by Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid ...
Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson consoled Jacqueline Kennedy after Johnson was sworn in as president. Universal History Archive/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [9] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [10]