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Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930)Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Taft, Military Aide Doubleday, Page & Company (1930)Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Papers of Archie Butt, Military Aide Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930)"Concentrated Banking and the 'Money Trust,'" first published Literary Digest 43: pp. 121-122 (July 22, 1911)Henry F. Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft Farrar & Rinehart (1939)

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That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, March 22, 1909. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 1: 26, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930).

Reporter Al Lewis told Butt that the press was getting very angry with Taft, who did not give out press releases every hour, as Roosevelt had done.

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