William Howard Taft: Plus-Sized President (1909-1913)

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Taft was the hand-picked successor to the monolithic Teddy Roosevelt. What did he do in office? Besides being famous for being overweight, he was also the only president to become a Supreme Court Justice. What else did he do? What did he and Teddy eventually fight about? Let's take a look!

Script by Michael Thomas

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Teddy could only appoint a man with an equally impressive moustache.

DoctorLazers

Though he was less INFLUENTIAL, Taft could be arguably proposed as a better President than Roosevelt from a policy standpoint. He was still progressive for the time in all the right areas, but also had a more respectful restraint toward using executive power than Roosevelt did. I think Taft is underrated as hell.

TheModernPioneer

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natepadol

Wow so me and my 7 year old grandson were talking about who was president in 1911..
Then Taft came up, that led us to YouTube..witch led us here...
Thanks Dave!! Passing you channel on to my 7 year old

vegatronld

How did he get so big before the invention of fast food?

BoredBricks

Since Taft was outstanding as a Justice and mediocre as a President, I would have liked more detail on his tenure as Justice.

claytonbenignus

He did a lot of good things here in the Philippines during his commission.

haisee

“His girth was so gargantuan.” - Professor Dave

FergieFerg

“Who’s the big fat president, who’s suits look like a flannel circus tent” TAFT, right on 😏

hadesmyg

if you go to the university belt in the Philippines, basically half the streets and buildings are named after him

nikkovalidor

I find it fascinating that the first 2 mins of this less than impressive bio focuses on his weight, really? Taft may not have been one of the best Presidents but he was a great Supreme Court Justice, and lets face it Taft is much better than other Presidents that came after him.

michaelcubria

Dude back there at 1:29 unknowingly inventing the photobomb.

Kerorofan

William Howard Taft has weighed as many as 350 pounds in 1913. Thankfully, I have not yet lived up to his weight peak. I hope that doesn’t happen for me, because I’m like a little over 300 pounds and I want to lose weight because I’ve been eating lots of carbs in the recent years of my life and I’ve been resting too much. I gotta cut down on both of those and do more physical activity. In fact, I am 22 and it’s a perfect age for me to lose weight.

johnoconnor

Thank you @ProfessorDaveExplains for showing US history in a such compiled and resumed way. Really appreciated, indeed! As an European, I believe many as me should take closer attention to US history. Not only because it’s informative but also to understand the present situation of the most powerful nation today… and perhaps get an idea about the world’s future 😂… Cheers!

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