Which president got stuck in the bathroom

The funniest kids' history book we've seen in a while. Lots of silly fun. Taft is depicted in all his large, naked glory, but the illustrations give the President an air of authority and dignity. The book itself is physically large, though Taft is largest of all, filling up his spacious bathroom with his voluminous body and endless cacophony.

Kids will enjoy the humor and energy in this story and be intrigued by the notion that presidents are people, too. Each page is a deliciously smooth like chocolate! A wrestler and dancer in his younger years, he stood six feet tall and weighed in at pounds by the end of his presidency.

Despite his size, Taft was always commended for his gentle spirit. He was said by many to be the politest man in Washington, and himself admitted that he was much too quiet for the politics of his office.

In the same way that George Washington struggled to manage his teeth , Taft struggled to manage his weight for most of his life, participating in a litany of fad diets and weight loss programs. Though his size could cause problems in the bath, the accompanying evidence for every mention of this debacle is a picture of a custom-ordered, extra-large tub containing four people, installed at his request in the White House.

In fact, the tub was originally installed aboard the ship he took to oversee construction of the Panama Canal. An engineering periodical covered the tub, stating that though Taft enjoyed bathing, but he simply used a shower if his size was otherwise unaccommodated. No details about six people or being embarrassingly stuck are made, however. William Howard Taft , the 27th President of the United States reportedly sat down one day for a nice long bath and got hopelessly stuck, needing six men to free him.

That doesn't necessarily mean it's true. But what is true, according to Phil Edwards at Trivia Happy, is that Taft did have a love of bathtubs. Very large bathtubs. One tub, built in , weighed a ton and was built expressly for Taft's use.