The ‘improbable’ presidency of Grover Cleveland
by Steve Donoghue
Nov 09, 2022
3 minutes
When President William Howard Taft took the stage at Carnegie Hall in 1909 for a memorial service honoring the late President Grover Cleveland, he prefaced his guarded praise with plenty of qualifications.
Cleveland had been a great president, he said, “not because he was a great lawyer, not because he was a brilliant orator, not because he was a statesman of profound learning, but because ...” and so on. The message was clear: Cleveland
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