William Howard Taft's White House bathtub and the 'stuck in the tub' tale

William Howard Taft was the heaviest U.S. president (weighing about 340 pounds) and during his administration a larger bathtub was installed in the White House to accommodate him. The popular anecdote that he once became stuck in the tub is widely repeated in books and tourism accounts. Historians note the story lacks contemporaneous documentation and regard it as apocryphal or disputed rather than established fact.