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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, 1909: Taft's inauguration took place during a huge blizzard that forced the ceremony indoors, but he braved the bitter weather to review the parade afterward. Telephone and telegraph lines were disabled by the storm, as were trains, which caused thousands to miss the event altogether. The morning of the inauguration Taft remarked, "I always said it would be a cold day when I got to be president of the United States."