Secaucus Fats had been giving serious thought to entering
the presidential race as a William Howard Taft Republican.
That was before he learned that Taft was actually a Comm-
unist, whose domestic agenda emphasized trust-busting,
civil service reform, strengthening the Interstate Com-
merce Commission, improving the performance of the
postal service, and passing the Sixteenth Amend-
ment to the Constitution, which authorized the
income tax.