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.