President William Howard Taft’s bathtub has become legendary. Four men could fit inside it and, according to myth, the President got stuck. The famously rotund leader topped out at 340 pounds (he was only 5’11″), and the tub story enhanced his sizeable reputation.
The questions are obvious: is the story true? How big was the tub? And did people know about it at the time?
The truth is more unusual than what we already know, and at least one story is actually more embarrassing—and incredible—than when Taft supposedly got stuck.
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