Presidential abuses of power. We’re so used to them by now that we feel a little cheated if the Commander-in-Chief doesn’t have his way with us every now and then. There was Thomas Jefferson’s dogged insistence that someday we would need states in the middle of the country. William Henry Harrison’s relentless desire to assume the presidency despite being too frail to endure just a few hours outdoors in D.C.’s balmy March climate. William Howard Taft’s tendency, at state dinners, to eat the meals meant for foreign dignitaries in addition to his own. But no one, regardless of how many Patriot Acts one might pass, could ever match the unparalleled chutzpah of our 32nd President.

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Quote of the Week

At the National Portrait Gallery:

A woman marches up to the portrait of FDR, plants herself firmly, and then turns to her companion and says sourly: “Imagine, the gall of that man, running four times.”

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