Complaining about our bizarre weather? Try having your Presidential Inauguration in crappy, snowy weather. That’s what happened to our most rotund president (and latest Nats racing president).
Here is a photograph of him in the carriage with Teddy Roosevelt en route to the Capitol and his swearing in.

And below are a few more photographs from that day, courtesy of the Library of Congress.


![President and Mrs. Taft leaving the Capitol to head the parade to the White House [March 4, 1909].](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2013/03/02908u.jpg)
![President Taft is here photographed with Edward F. Stallwagon [i.e. Edward J. Stellwagen], Chief of the Inaugural Committee, and with Vice President James S. Sherman--A severe blizzard hindered the ceremonies.](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2013/03/3a04199u.jpg)