Presidential Bovine

Her name was Pauline Wayne. She weighed 1,500 pounds. She was black and white. She produced a remarkable 8 gallons of milk a day—25 percent more than usual. And President William Howard Taft loved her. Pauline became the subject of a nationwide search in September of 1911 when her private cattle car—meant for a dairy expo in her home state of Wisconsin—disappeared. Pictures of Taft prove he was a large man, and his tastes were voracious for milk, butter, cream and cheese. It was just sensi