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Helen Louise "Nellie" Taft (née Herron; June 2, 1861 – May 22, 1943) was the First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913 as the wife of President William Howard Taft. Born to a politically well-connected Ohio family, she took an early interest in political life, deciding at the age of 17 that she wished to become first lady.
The idea of publishing her memoirs was first proposed by The Delineator, a women's magazine. The journalist Eleanor Franklin Egan proposed that Helen write several articles for the magazine in early 1913. Taft did not like the proposal, instead suggesting that her daughter, Helen Taft Manning, undertake a similar project
Early published memoirs focused on relatively trivial matters, often largely focusing on the first lady's personal life. Helen Taft's memoirs were described by The New York Sun as "bright, witty, delightfully entertaining reminiscences" upon publication, and Edith Wilson's My Memoir was criticized by contemporary reviewers such as The New York ...
LIFE Magazine. LIFE magazine is getting a revival thanks to model Karlie Kloss and her husband, Joshua Kushner, over 20 years after it went out of regular circulation.. The news was announced in a ...
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Helen Herron Taft Manning (August 1, 1891 – February 21, 1987) was an American historian who was dean and acting president of Bryn Mawr College. She was the middle child and only daughter of U.S. President William Howard Taft and his wife Helen Herron .
This satirical political cartoon in Life Magazine in 1912 had its origin in the Pinchot–Ballinger controversy. The five Guggenheims on the Western side of the map are depicted as Jews who want to create the "United States of Guggenheimerica" by offering gold to J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie from Wall Street.
For the first time in inauguration history, the incoming First Lady (in this case Helen Herron Taft) joined her husband in leading the parade from the Capitol to the White House. Probably during the parade, the choral march "Our Country" by Arthur Whiting was played. [3] An inaugural ball that evening was held at the Pension Building.