WASHINGTON (AP) — "I knew it would be a cold day when I was made president," William Howard Taft joked just a century ago, taking office in 1909 in what has been described as the worst inaugural weather ever. Ten inches of snow fell. Wind downed trees and telephone poles. Streets were clogged and trains stalled.

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