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Topping the scales at over 350 pounds, William Howard Taft was a true political heavyweight. Although “Big Bill” was the only man to serve as both U.S. president and Supreme Court chief ...
William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States reportedly sat down one day for a nice long bath and got hopelessly stuck, needing six men to free him.
Perhaps the most lasting moment of William Howard Taft's U.S. presidency took place in his bathtub. It certainly wasn't any of his political activities — even his official White House biography ...
Coe traces the story back to Irwin Hoover, a 42-year veteran of the White House staff. In his memoir, published in 1934, Hoover wrote that big-boned Taft would “stick” in the bathtub and have ...
It took six of the strongest men on White House grounds, the story goes, to wrest William Howard Taft’s substantial body out of the bathtub. Taft was born on this day in 1857, and that ...
However, despite these unusual pieces of history, William Taft is best known for being the fattest president ever elected to the office and for an apocryphal story in which he got stuck in a bathtub. In 2014, Mac Barnett published the children's book "President Taft Is Stuck In The Bath." Despite glossing over the fact that the story isn't true ...
Rumors abound that the 27th president of the United States, William Howard Taft, got stuck in a bathtub at the White House due to his portly size. Specifically, most stories say he was only removed once six people helped pry his naked body out. While it is true that Taft was America’s heaviest president, the story itself has less evidence.
