the majority of U.S. citizens owned one — including the president. William Howard Taft officially introduced the idea of the presidential car in 1909, and Congress funded the purchase of a White ...

A little less than a year after being elected the 27th president of the United States in 1908, William Howard ... where Taft arrived on his custom private railroad car, the Mayflower, on Oct ...

Challenges: William Howard Taft stumbled dramatically on two important occasions as President: his special congressional session to revise the tariff downward, and his dismissal of Theodore ...

Barack Obama's trip to Clinton Thursday follows a visit to Rome and Cooperstown while he was in office. What other presidents have been here?