President Taft withdrew 3,041,000 acres of public lands in California and Wyoming from further claims, thereby reserving the oil for use by the United States Navy. The oil lands were being very rapidly claimed by placer oil claims and would have been unavailable, had this not been done, within a few months.
This provides the basis of today's strategic oil reserves. No doubt, had current Wyoming political forces been around at the time, they would have protested this beneficial and necessary action, and probably branded President Taft a communist.
Dedication ceremony for Confederate monument in Mulberry, Tennessee, September 27, 1909.
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