Because the blacks needed a period of probation and instruction. A period is long enough for the black to have forgotten something of the condition as a slave.
The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3, 1908. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, to become his successor.
The current prime minister of Greece is Kyriakos Mitsotakis,
