William howard taft

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power . . . in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

There's billions of dollars of investors' money at stake here, ... The national financial press will be focusing on this. And for the author of the story to be away on holidays when it's released just is wrong.