U.S. President William Howard Taft was at dinner one night when his youngest son
made a disrespectful remark about his father.
Everyone was shocked at the audacity of the boy and a hush descended on the room.
“Well,” said Mrs. Taft, “aren’t you going to punish him?”
“If the remark was addressed to me as his father, he will certainly be punished.”
said Taft, “But if he addressed it to the President of the United States, that is
his constitutional privilege.”
Why should a father be exempt from criticism that’s good for a President?
🙂
U.S. President William Howard Taft was at dinner one night when his youngest son
made a disrespectful remark about his father.
Everyone was shocked at the audacity of the boy and a hush descended on the room.
“Well,” said Mrs. Taft, “aren’t you going to punish him?”
“If the remark was addressed to me as his father, he will certainly be punished.”
said Taft, “But if he addressed it to the President of the United States, that is
his constitutional privilege.”
Why should a father be exempt from criticism that’s good for a President?
🙂