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TAFT, William H. The Presidency, Its Duties, Its Powers, Its Opportunities and Its Limitations. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. 8o, blue cloth stamped in gilt, Taft's Ex Libris on the front pastedown, in a red, half-morocco slipcase stamped in gilt.
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED ON THE FRONT FLY-LEAF ("Wm. H. Taft"). This book comprises Taft's three Barbour-Page Lectures before the University of Virginia in 1915. They are a thoughtful if somewhat skeptical survey of presidential realities, drawn from Taft's own unhappy experience in the office. "I am strongly inclined to the view that it would have been a wiser provision, as it was at one time voted in the convention, to make the term of the President seven years and render him ineligible thereafter. Such a change would give to the executive greater courage and independence in the discharge of his duties" (p.4).
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED ON THE FRONT FLY-LEAF ("Wm. H. Taft"). This book comprises Taft's three Barbour-Page Lectures before the University of Virginia in 1915. They are a thoughtful if somewhat skeptical survey of presidential realities, drawn from Taft's own unhappy experience in the office. "I am strongly inclined to the view that it would have been a wiser provision, as it was at one time voted in the convention, to make the term of the President seven years and render him ineligible thereafter. Such a change would give to the executive greater courage and independence in the discharge of his duties" (p.4).