![]() ![]() Regardless, after learning the Tafts were included on the long list of the cemetery’s illustrious residents, I was able to return to Arlington and pay my respects a little over ten months later. : The Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft, 19211930 (Chief Justiceships of the United States Supreme Court) eBook : Lurie, Jonathan: Tienda Kindle Omitir e ir al contenido. Even if my historical interests had been broader at the time, there was only so much walking my sister and I would have been up to at ages 5 and 8, respectively. William Howard Taft by Jonathan Lurie, 2011, Cambridge University Press edition, in English. On that initial stop my family limited itself to the Tomb of the Unknowns, a tour of Arlington House, and the burial sites of Robert, Jacqueline, and John F. Taft - on subsequent pilgrimages to the cemetery as opposed to my premiere visit in summer 2003. ![]() I first saw all the aforementioned graves - including those of President and Mrs. Figures of note buried in the Tafts’ vicinity include Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln, General Omar Bradley, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, and civil rights activist Medgar Evers. The 27th president and 10th chief justice is laid to rest beside his wife, former First Lady Helen “Nellie” Taft, who is best remembered for the role she played in the introduction of Japanese cherry blossoms to the capital city. ![]()
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