A plan that threatens some historic Washington, D.C., cherry trees to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned golf course is “very unfortunate,” said the great-grandson of William Howard Taft who received the Japanese trees more than a century ago.
Going back to the Civil War, the Taft family has had an outsized influence in Ohio and national politics. A president and Supreme Court Chief Justice, U.S. Secretary of War, two U.S. Senators and a governor, all sprang from the family.
