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The last President to have a moustache, or indeed, facial hair of any kind, possibly reflecting a rather unfortunate [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|bias against it]]. Also the first president to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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* [[Big Fun]]: He was a jolly, genial man according to all accounts, not to mention a big baseball fan.
* [[Discontinuity]]: His own take on his being President is that it didn't happen, mostly because he felt he had achieved much more as a judge than as President.
* [[Fat Bastard]]: To his enemies, though it was almost always other things aside from his weight that they didn't like.
* [[Principles Zealot]]: Taft was an intensely fierce advocate of rules and settling things by rule of law, which is part of the reason he was happier as a judge than he was as President.
* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]]: The bit about him getting stuck in his own bathtub [http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/02/why-william-howard-taft-was-probably-never-stuck-in-his-bathtub/ stemmed from a lot of assumption, mostly because his bathtub had a big crack in it at one point].
* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Used to friends with [[Theodore Roosevelt]] until their political differences caused them to grow apart, a split [[Woodrow Wilson]] took advantage of in the 1912 elections.
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