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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930) President. TLS, "Wm H Taft", as Chief Justice of the Supreme Cour...

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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930) President. TLS,  Wm H Taft , as Chief Justice of the Supreme Cour...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930) President. TLS, "Wm H Taft", as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 2 separate pages, Oct 10, 1922, 4to, to George Lorimer, Editor of the Saturday Evening Post, excellent content. In part, "...The public dIscussion of my relations with [Theodore] Roosevelt has always been a painful one for me. I have felt deeply that Mr Roosevelt's friends, whether with his consent or not, have been exceedingly unjust in their representations and inferences, and these letters I think repel practically all that they have said; but I think it better not to revive the discussion, and to leave to my children the discretion to publish what I may say to them...when the subject becomes ripe for the political history of the time. I now cherish no ill will at all toward Theodore Roosevelt. There were times when I could perhaps not have said so, especially when his action seemed require me to leave the White House to go out unto the stump to rebut his charges. But all that has gone into the past, and in his silence and inability to answer, I do not wish to appear to be reviving the discussion...you assumed that the letters were given to Mr Kohlsaat, with permission to publish them. If Mr Kohlsaat thinks this, he is quite in error...Mr Kohlsaat said he was...a very warm friend of Mr Roosevelt and me, and anxious to prevent the breach that he saw coming. He came to me with the statement that Mr Roosevelt said...that I had not acted in good faith with respect to my Cabinet appointments...Smarting, as I was, under the injustices of the charges, I let Mr Kohlsaat see the letters..." VG. $4,000-6,000