Quote#Homeland
Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet…
Quote byWilliam Howard Taft · 1857–1930
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916), p. ?.
English (original)
Presidents may go to the seashore or to the mountains. Cabinet officers may go about the country explaining how fortunate the country is in having such an administration, but the machinery at Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted.
— William Howard Taft
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