How Does Santa Go Down the Chimney?
John's Turn

President Taft Is Stuck in the Bath

George Washington crossed the Delaware in the dead of night. Abraham Lincoln saved the Union. And President William Howard Taft, a man of great stature . . . well, he got stuck in a bathtub. Now how did he get unstuck?

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