🇺🇸 President of the Week: William Taft William Howard Taft’s presidency (1909–1913) is often overshadowed by his more flamboyant contemporaries, but this week’s Veterans on Point spotlighted one of his overlooked achievements: cherry blossoms. When Japan gifted the United States 2,000 trees in 1910, the shipment arrived infested with pests. Taft made the difficult but necessary decision to destroy them—while carefully assuring Japanese officials that the gesture was still deeply valued. His di