I will break their necks with the utmost cheerfulness if you say the word!' Just weeks later he branded as 'false and malicious'; the charge was that he was using the offices at his disposal to favor Taft. At the 1908 Republican convention, many chanted for 'four years more' of a Roosevelt presidency, but Taft won the nomination after Henry Cabot Lodge made it clear that Roosevelt was not interested in a third term.
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