Saturday, February 16, 2008

President's Day--This Year It's All About Millard 'Da Man' Fillmore

Start:     Feb 18, '08 01:00a
Location:     Your Local Fillmore Hotel, of course. Check the Yellow Pages
If only every President got the same deserved homage as the great Millard Fillmore (1850-53). Where would we as a nation today be without his steady hand on the national tiller?
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  1. crabby manFebruary 17, 2008 at 6:59 AM

    ???? Did he do anything?

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  2. doug noakesFebruary 17, 2008 at 7:28 AM

    It's not enough that he was known as "Da Man"--you're saying he had to do something ;-)

    You hit the nail on the head, Fred. What did Millard do? He was an accidental President who came into office via General Zach Taylor's death. He couldn't even get his Whig Party nomination in the convention of 1852. He's the only one of two Presidents to get kicked to the curb by his own party convention while he was in office. This kind of thing happens to accidental Presidents--Gerald Ford nearly lost the 1976 GOP nomination to that Reagan Guy.

    "Da man"later ran for President in 1856--on the bigoted Know-Nothing Party Ticket. He was not a major player in that election.

    That's why I prefer NOT to have a holiday celebrating all the Presidents. I wanted to get into this later in a separate blog , but let's spill it out now:


    I think Washington and Lincoln should have a single "joint" holiday--and this has nothing to do with legalizing pot--and let the more obscure Presidents revel in their obscurity.

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  3. crabby manFebruary 17, 2008 at 3:36 PM

    Fillmore did install a working bath tub in the White House

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  4. doug noakesFebruary 17, 2008 at 4:52 PM

    Drat! Just when I thought he had accomplished absolutely nothing.

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