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Show Tnft Brenk Presidential Hreords. Washington Since March 4, 1909, on which date Mr. Taft was inaugurated, he has traveled 2S.101 miles. He has an engagement for the latter part of April and the beginning of May which will take him 2,380 miles further on his way to Buffalo, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, St. Louis and return. As soon as he gets back to Washington on May 7, he wi'll start for New York. In the nearly 30,000 Tniles he has traveled. President Taft has made more speeches than any of his predecessors in the same time, and his first year's record is more than many Presidents achieved in four full years. The Taft record to date is 390 speeches. The coming trip to the Middle West will add about thirty more. I In his rambles over the country the I President has been in -thirty-nine t states and two territories, and he has visited one foreign country. The only j states he has overlooked are Wyoming, Nevada, Oklahoma, Michigan, Florida. West Virginia, Maine and New Hampshire. Hamp-shire. His biggest trip was the swing through the West, which lasted from September 14 until November 10. In that trip he traveled 12,794 nfiles and made 275 speeches. |