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Taft and Notification Comm. at Wh. House (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    The photo was taken at the White House in Washington, D. C., in June, 1912, when Taft was the incumbent President. This was his second experience of the notification ritual. The committee had traveled from the Republican National Convention in Chicago, where Taft had been nominated for a second term. In the era before a candidate attended the convention in person, this was his ceremonial acceptance. But of course, Taft went down to defeat in November. Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, was victorious, and Theodore Roosevelt, leader of the Bull Moose Party, came in second. In the Bain Company files at LOC is a photo of Taft's 1908 notification, in Cincinnati (his home town) -- but LOC has not yet posted that photo on Flickr.

Taft at MAINE Monument dedication (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Haunted_Studio said:
    thank you!
  • tsienni said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Humanistic, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Pauline

from DCPL Commons

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  • Criz Stoddard said:
    Info on Pauline from the Presidential pet museum: www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/Pets/Pauline_Wayne.htm
  • Mouserola! said:
    Here is another photo of the cow, but the spots don't look the same to me! What's the story? Is one of the images actually reversed, so we're really seeing the cow's other side? Or is one the PREVIOUS presidential cow, Mooly Wooly? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cow-taft.jpg Thanks for this photo, by the way, it was a big thrill for me. I'm from Wisconsin, and my grandfather shook hands with president Taft in 1912 when Taft visited Appleton, Wisconsin. Grandpa was ten years old. The president suddenly turned to him and said, "Little boy, how would you like to shake hands with the president of the United States?" Big turning point and influence on my grandfather's life. When George Bush came to Appleton, the Post-Crescent newspaper declared it was the first time a "sitting president" had come to town. My grandfather straightened the newspaper out, which was duly acknowledged in a follow up article. Pauline was from Kenosha, Wisconsin. The original detailed New York Times newspaper article about Pauline can be viewed at: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9507E...
  • Filippo P said:
    Cow controversy! I love it!
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    Cow Gate! My money is on Mooley Wooly! (then again, those 'spots' were hand colored ;)
  • DCPL Commons said:
    Ha! Cow Gate! I love it.