President William Howard Taft began the tradition, also in a game between Washington and Philadelphia.

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On March twenty-seventh,nineteen twelve, Missus Taft and the wife of the Japanese Ambassador together planted two trees at a part of the river called the tidal basin.

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Roosevelt raised everyone's spirits by his robust response on learning that his opponent was to be Lindbergh rather than a senator of the stature of Taft or a prosecutor as aggressive as Dewey or a bigtime lawyer as smooth and handsome as Willkie.

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He is himself a graduate of Taft, where he played football and served as student body president.

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In 1952, Eisenhower was backed by Dewey, but specifically because he was a Republican the Taft folks would accept.

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