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Caroline Kennedy, Nine Enemies and One Ingrate

Ben Smith's Blog found this 12/16/2008 on swampland.blogs.time.com

William Howard Taft, the last American president with facial hair , famously said that "every time I make an appointment, I create nine enemies and one ingrate." (Or maybe it was "one ingrate and twenty enemies.") We can assume that Taft's mustache makes him an expert at such things, in the ...