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In Hot Springs, Virginia, on August 5, 1908, President William Howard Taft addresses the importance of healthy agriculture to the economic well-being of the nation in what came to be known as his Farmer and the Republican" speech.

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William Howard Taft served as the 27th U.S. president (1909-13) and chief justice of the Supreme Court (1921-30).

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