Taft Writes

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    It does seem strange that the only place in the government which I would have liked to fill myself I am forced to give to another.
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister, Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.
    Peter Shaffer (b. 1926)