[cynwoody]

That guy needs a bigger chair. Like this one.

[sinanju]

...Earlier in the year, Mission Inn owner Frank A. Miller had a special chair made for Taft. The chair was extra large to accommodate the President, as he weighed in excess of three hundred pounds. According to one story, the large chair offended Taft (Hall,1996).

The Governor of California, United States Senators, and many local dignitaries, including Frank Miller, attended a ten-course meal at the hotel that evening. Taft did not stay at the Mission Inn overnight; after dinner, he left on a train from the Southern Pacific Depot.

That's a riot! The chair looks too big even for Taft. No wonder he thought he was being insulted.