Master 1817 - Tape 2 Text: "...kill devil hill, kitty hawk, December 17 1903 Orville Wright flew the first heavier than air machine...the world scoffed, but the Wrights struggled on. After years Wilbur Wright made the first flight in Europe flying under French government subsidy...Orville Wright won the $30,000 prize at Fort Meyer, Va for a sustained flight with a passenger..." MCU U.S. President WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT and ORVILLE WRIGHT AND WILBUR WRIGHT.
Great TLS crowd standing behind hedgerow, their heads turning in unison to follow golf shot. LSs people crowding courses to watch professional golfers compete. Panning TLS pro golfer sinking putt. Good MSs legendary golfer BOBBY JONES posing on course; slow motion MS Bobby Jones chipping out of sand trap using sand wedge. Great MS famed industrialist JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER SR. hitting ball on fairway (terrible swing); MS John D. Rockefeller Sr. teaching his grandson (young Nelson Rockefeller?) to play golf. MSs President WARREN G. HARDING walking along golf course wearing knickers, playing golf. MS President WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT teeing off. MS New York Governor AL SMITH wearing knickers (plus fours), teeing off, mugging for cam & on-lookers; MS Governor Alfred Smith stuck in sandtrap, trying to wedge out, but can't so he makes a grand joke of the whole thing, eventually picking up the ball and tossing it onto the green... funny.
DO NOT SELL Voiceover. The Innocent Years - Part Two. 1912 Campaign of Taft, Roosevelt & Wilson THEODORE ROOSEVELT returning to America: TLS steamship sailing in Hudson, MSs Teddy Roosevelt doffing hat from boat; MS TR and entourage in NYC, followed by shots of parade in his honor, cops pushing crowds back; Teddy takes to stage bedecked in American flags and streamers. Montage of Theodore Roosevelt campaigning for Progressive Bull Moose Party, 1912 (rides trains and cars, gives speeches, meets and greets voters). TLS steps of the Capitol Building, Ford Model T automobiles driving in FG (really nice shot). MSs WOODROW WILSON and WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT on Inauguration Day, 1913. They shake hands, get into car, drive to ceremony through very crowded streets. EST shots Wilson home in Princeton, New Jersey, MSs Woodrow Wilson shaking hands & talking w/ guests at a political function in his backyard. MSs Mr. Wilson meeting w/ aides & advisors. LS White House. MSs Mr. Wilson meeting with diplomats in office. Wilson sigining papers.
Inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson, United States (Mar 4, 1913): TLS Supreme Court Justices walking down aisles, taking seats in gallery, followed by former President WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT and British Ambassador to the United States Lord JAMES BRYCE. LS/MSs Chief Justice EDWARD D. WHITE administering Oath of Office to WOODROW WILSON. LS/MSs Wilson delivering Inaugural speech. TLS soldiers in cadet-like uniforms marching in inaugural parade. GV carriage carrying Presidents Wilson & Taft through Washington, DC. TLSs Army and Navy marching.
Master 3 - Tape 1 Republican bachelor president William Howard Taft shakes the hands of some military personnel. He then stands at a podium and starts reading from a prepared speech.
William H Taft, a statesman for history, pictured at his summer home at Murray Bay, Canada. William Taft sitting on a lawn with his family. The august statesman is just Grandpa here. William Taft with his family on the front porch. Child climbs into his lap.
Horse-drawn carts in very muddy street. Pedestrians struggling against a very strong wind. Blizzard in city. Wind blowing so hard it blows people sliding along on icy street. Automobiles driving on wide boulevard. President William Howard Taft shaking hands, making speeches.
William Howard Taft campaigning. Theodore Roosevelt riding in motorcade, campaigning. Woodrow Wilson on inauguration day. Inaugural procession. Woodrow Wilson on balcony wearing top hat. Taft & Wilson shake hands. Taft and Wilson get in carriage together. Inauguration. Parade. Girls waving American flags.
March 4, 1913, Inauguration Day, high angle LSs of military parade through the streets of Washington DC, some shots w/ Capitol Dome in BG. MS President William Howard Taft in office, looking over documents. Recreation CU Taft signing legislation.
William Howard Taft shaking hands with two Caucasian women.
William Howard Taft. William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt
President William Howard Taft speaking at outdoor rally, shaking hands from gazebo.
DO NOT SELL Voiceover. The Innocent Years - Part Two. Taft Presidential Campaign. MSs U.S. President WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT playing golf at a private course. (note that the President's caddy is an African America male teenager.) MSs William Howard Taft speechifying, shaking hands with constituents. MSs Democratic Presidential candidate WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN speechifying, campaigning. MSs President Taft and entourage on Inauguration Day, making way to (or from) ceremony. MSs Mr. Taft reviewing papers in a dim office.
Inauguration Day, March 4, 1913: President William Howard Taft & President-elect Woodrow Wilson shaking hands outside the White House, then getting into carriage. Presidential carriage and entourage (including an officer's unit of the US Army Cavalry) making way through streets of Washington, DC. Women waving American flags, newsboys cutting through crowd, etc. Gallery at the Capitol Building draped with flags. Woodrow Wilson being sworn into the office of President by Chief Justice Edward White.
President William Howard Taft on campaign trail. Taft speaking from caboose of train. Taft orating at rally, reading from script. Taft shaking hands of constituency from gazebo.
TLS Chief Justice William Howard Taft administering Oath of Office to Calvin Coolidge, March 4, 1925. MS/CUs famed attorney & politico William Jennings Bryan exiting building, tipping hat.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Howard Taft wearing fedora, smiling, talking to camera. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes posing, removing hat. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. posing for cam. Panning view of Supreme Court Justices of the United States under the Hoover administration (Charles Evans Hughes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Willis Van Devanter, James McReynolds, Louis Brandeis, George Sutherland, Pierce Butler, Edward Sanford, Harlan Stone).
