but helen taft didn't want to have any part of the.o go on the supreme court became president. there is a nice lettering here that i'm going to read part of tu, and that she to her husband, william, when he was seeking the nomination for the presidency. it has to do with the meeting she had with theodore roosevelt, who was then president of the united states. and she writes to her has been, william taft, about the meeting she had in the white house. and she says after lunch, the president, theodore roosevelt, said he wanted to talk to me and share me off to sit down in the window. as usual, it was about you but i'm a new tact. he seems to have think i am consumed with and ignored in its ambition to be president and that he must constantly warn me that you may never get there. and he now says that while you are his first choice, that in case you are not crowded to the powers that be, it may become necessary for him to support someone else like you for instance should he live in new york. i felt like saying dmu, support who you want for