Helen Herron Taft was the wife of the US President with the same last name. Not in such severe need of weight loss as her husband, she was much more active. She was instrumental in the removal of farm animals from the White House grounds, and was the first former first lady to pen and publish an autobiography. Her most remembered, though hardly her greatest, accomplishment was to bring the famous Oriental Cherry Trees to the White House grounds. Her death led to another first… she is the first Presidential wife to be buried alongside her husband in Arlington National Cemetery.