The President's Stuck in the Bathtub: Poems about the President being stuck in a bathtub.
Constitution Daily looks into a claim that has haunted the 27th president for a long time: was the leader of the free world stuck in the White House bathtub?
Unless some evidence surfaces from our readers who want to come clean, the answer appears to be no.
Taft was one of the most versatile presidents.Not only was Big Bill a big guy, he was also a chief justice of the United States, a wrestler at Yale, and a peace activist.
The 16th Amendment established the income tax, the Panama Canal was mostly finished, and Taft proved he was the best presidential dancer since George Washington.
In 1912, after a bitter fight with Theodore Roosevelt, Taft saved the Republican Party by taking on a doomed re- election campaign.
The president who was so large that he got stuck in the White House bathtub is remembered the most today.
When news broke that the Washington Nationals chose a Taft replica as their fifth racing mascot, Constitution Daily started researching.
There was bad blood between TR and Big Bill and the team said its Teddy Roosevelt mascot was trying to get Taft.
Something about the tub story wasn't true while searching through some primary research documents.
The Bathtub Trust, a group of porcelain makers who were bent on creating a price-fixing monopoly that controlled bathtubs and toilets, was broken up by the President and his Justice Department.
There was an extra-large tub in the White House.The tub was removed from the White House during a renovation.
The pottery for the super-tub came from New York.The replica tub was on display at the National Archives.
The entire "stuck in a tub" story appears to be pretty leaky, if you look at the archives from the time period and the Archives exhibit.
According to documents from the National Archives and several contemporary newspapers, the giant tub was ordered by the government and used by President William McKinley before he became president.
The president-elect would sail to Panama in January before his inauguration.The Panama Canal was still being built.
The captain of the US submitted an order for an extra-large tub.On December 21, 1908, North Carolina.
On January 19, 1909, a story appeared in the press about a "great bath tub" on the North Carolina, adding that there was no reason why the tub wouldn't be sent to the White House on March 4, 1909.
In February 1909, a picture of the giant tub appeared in the journal Engineering Review, with four men sitting inside.
He used a shower to deal with bathtub-size problems, according to an article that appears to be an expanded version of a newspaper story.
The common story is that a new tub was installed in the White House after Taft got stuck in an old tub.
The press covered the installation of an extra-large tub on the presidential yacht in 1910.
There is a longstanding rumor in Erie, Pennsylvania, that there was a 1911 incident in which Taft was stuck in a tub.
In her book, Parks mentions the bathtub incident.During the Hoover administration, her mother started at the White House.
In the 1912 election, Roosevelt's supporters made fun of his weight.The story could have grown from there.
With a presidential campaign in 2016 possibly featuring a heavy-set candidate, the power of an urban legend shouldn't be underestimated.
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with messages and links to long videos about the fanciful theories she had come to accept as fact.According to a poll, 15% of Americans believe that many Democrats and celebrities are part of a global pedophile ring, which was promoted by the pro-Trump conspiracy-theory movement that rose in popularity over the course of his presidency.Many of its supporters wrongly believed that President Joe Biden had stolen the election.Some of Boyland's family and friends asked her to stop talking about politics because of her sudden fixation.Boyland was a vulnerable target for the conspiracy theorists according to some of her friends.Her family said that after a stint in drug rehabilitation, she returned to her parents home and largely avoided drugs for several years.The isolation brought about by the Pandemic was making it more difficult.They said that it helped distract her from thoughts of returning to drugs even as it acted as a different kind of hallucinogen.Blaire Boyland was worried that her sister was trading one addiction for another.She wasn't doing drugs, but she was very obsessive online and went down the rabbit hole.She died after being caught in a crush of rioters, according to the video of the siege.The autopsy by the Washington medical examiner's office concluded that she had overdosed on amphetamines.She might have taken at least twice her prescribed dose of Adderall, but family members said it was likely that the only amphetamine in her body was the Adderall she took every day by prescription.To be able to rest, we just want to find out what happened.This has been messed up.For years, Boyland had been barred from voting because of her drug conviction, but she had shown little interest in politics until 2020.She made it clear early on that she was going to vote for Trump.She registered to vote a month before the election.Stephen Marsh, a friend of Boyland's, said that she had called his mother after she was able to vote.She was excited about it because her past made it difficult for her to participate, but her increasing absorption in the community pushed some of her closest friends away.On Oct. 3, after Boyland sent her a long text message about government manipulation of the news media, she told him that it would be best if they didn't talk for a while.Boyland was the middle of three sisters and grew up in Georgia, a city of 34,000 people about 25 miles northwest of Atlanta.Her younger sister said she had been inspired by Boyland's confidence and assertiveness.Her sisters said that she had a penchant for conspiracy theories, such as the existence of extraterrestrials or Bigfoot.Her life took a turn when she began dating an abusive boyfriend, her sisters said.She blamed black eyes on soccer practice and ended up with a shoulder injury.She got hooked on drugs around that time.Her relationship with her family became strained after she dropped out of high school.She was charged with felony drug possession when she was 23.She was given five years of probation in the most recent case, in April 2013).She pledged to be a better role model for her niece when she found out that Cave was pregnant, and from that moment on, she was largely sober.Cave, who gave birth to her first daughter in March 2015, said that she was always talking about how she wanted to be the cool aunt.She now has two children.Boyland was close to both of them and would pick them up from school.She spent a lot of her time counseling people who were struggling with drugs.She wanted to become a counselor herself.She had to spend most of her time alone at her parents' house and her in-person group meetings were canceled because of the Pandemic.She told her sisters that she wanted to use drugs again.Blaire Boyland said that she was struggling.She was not getting anything out of the meetings.Her friends began to notice that she was posting about conspiracy theories.She was texting them about PizzaGate, a conspiracy theory that included false claims about Democratstrafficking children in the basement of a pizza shop in Washington.Boyland said in a text message to her childhood friend that she had mostly been watching it on the internet."Save the Children" was the slogan that QAnon members used to spread false claims about Democrats.She cared for kids a lot.She thought she was fighting for children, and just trying to spread the word about underground pedophile rings.Boyland and a friend were going to drive to Washington.They parked in Virginia and took a bus to see Trump at the rally, where he riled up the crowd with claims that his election loss had been rigged.Trump told the crowd that they would not have a country if they didn't fight.Boyland and other protesters headed to the Capitol.The footage of the crowd surge up the Capitol steps, a short figure in a black hoodie and American-flag sunglasses, was the first glimpse of The Chaotic Siege Boyland.When presidents emerge for their inaugurations, she disappears into a mob inside a tunnel.It was the scene of some of the day's most brutal hand-to-hand fighting, and videos showed rioters crushing police officers between doors.After two men dragged her away from the door and began trying to resuscitate her, she could be seen lying on her side.It appeared to be trampling.The medical examiner's ruling that she had died of amphetamine intoxication left her family confused.She had been taking Adderall under a doctor's prescription and had not been seen to have any adverse effects.The level of amphetamine in her blood was enough to be fatal, according to several forensic pathologists and toxicologists who reviewed the autopsy report.Cave said her sister sometimes took both of her 30-milligram daily doses at the same time, something Iain McIntyre said the level could be consistent with.McIntyre said the high dose of amphetamine could have made her heart stop.After the death of Boyland, Cave's husband told reporters that Trump had instigated a riot that killed four of his biggest fans.The Caves were left wondering how they could have helped Boyland before she fell into the conspiracy theories.Lonna Cave feels guilty because she didn't think much about it when she started looking into it.She was somewhere she shouldn't have been.She would not have been here if it weren't for all the misinformation.The New York Times Company.
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