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Roosevelt and Taft had known each other for many years within the Republican Party, and had developed a strong friendship with one another. This friendship reached a high point when Roosevelt endorsed Taft to be his successor in the 1908 Democratic National Convention; however, neither had the time to venture into the seedy world of rock music, for they were too busy worrying about getting elected, and such. Once the election was secured and Taft was successfully greased through the White House door, Roosevelt discovered that when one spends so much time actually getting things done as a president, life afterwards is a dreadful bore. Naturally, after he successfully poached enough gazelles in Mozambique to fill a dozen cathedral sized trophy rooms, he took up playing guitar.

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  • Roosevelt and Taft had known each other for many years within the Republican Party, and had developed a strong friendship with one another. This friendship reached a high point when Roosevelt endorsed Taft to be his successor in the 1908 Democratic National Convention; however, neither had the time to venture into the seedy world of rock music, for they were too busy worrying about getting elected, and such. Once the election was secured and Taft was successfully greased through the White House door, Roosevelt discovered that when one spends so much time actually getting things done as a president, life afterwards is a dreadful bore. Naturally, after he successfully poached enough gazelles in Mozambique to fill a dozen cathedral sized trophy rooms, he took up playing guitar.
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  • Roosevelt and Taft had known each other for many years within the Republican Party, and had developed a strong friendship with one another. This friendship reached a high point when Roosevelt endorsed Taft to be his successor in the 1908 Democratic National Convention; however, neither had the time to venture into the seedy world of rock music, for they were too busy worrying about getting elected, and such. Once the election was secured and Taft was successfully greased through the White House door, Roosevelt discovered that when one spends so much time actually getting things done as a president, life afterwards is a dreadful bore. Naturally, after he successfully poached enough gazelles in Mozambique to fill a dozen cathedral sized trophy rooms, he took up playing guitar. Meanwhile, on Pennsylvania Avenue, Taft kept contact with his pen pal the Tedster through weekly telegraph correspondences held between bill signing and binge banqueting. On one Sunday afternoon, the brilliant idea dawned on Taft that both he could reinvigorate the bored Roosevelt while simultaneously getting his presidential reforms done: they would start a rock band. It wouldn't just be any rock band, though, it would double as a megaphone in which Taft, a notoriously bad speech giver, could deliver his messages... through the power of rock! Roosevelt found the idea to be a novel one, picked up camp in Mozambique, and took the first steamship back to the States. Taft believed that this band didn't have to be any different from the other rock bands at the time, such as Jacob Riis's Picture Perfect and Coolidge and the Cucumbers. To fulfill this purpose, he had a crudely built garage erected in the rear of the White House for the sole purpose of "realistically mundane jam sessions." This garage, along with Taft's personal recliner humidor, was later paved over to make a tennis court.
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