Quote#Politics & Power
If I run as the regular Republican nominee, I may go down to defeat…
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), Quoted in William Howard Taft A Conservative's Conception of the Presidency By Donald F. Anderson, 1973, P.185. Taft said this to William Worthington in explaining how he saw his renomination, as one historian put it, “as the bes.
English (original)
If I run as the regular Republican nominee, I may go down to defeat if a bolt is started by Roosevelt, but I will retain the regular organization of the party as a nucleus about which the conservative people who are in favor of maintaining constitutional government can gather, both from the Democratic and Republican parties, and we will have two radicals and one conservative.
— William Howard Taft
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