Potus Geeks Book Review: Millard Fillmore-Biography of a President by Robert Rayback

[kensmind]

Millard Fillmore is considered the least remembered President of the United States (an honor sometimes shared with Chester Alan Arthur). He is more often remembered as the punchline to a joke, such as when H. L. Mencken perpetrated what came to be known as the "bathtub hoax" or when the Kia Motor Company gave a faux tribute to Fillmore as part of

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[seaivy]

Shakespeare had it
the evil lives on
the good is often interred with their bones

people in his own times knew moral courage was not his strong point
sometimes people want courage - sometimes they don't care

Fillmore was basically a failed politician
rejected by party and people more times
got to be president by a twist of fate
wrong man for the job
history is like that

[kensmind]

It's the contrast with people like Fillmore that make one appreciate a Lincoln all the more.