The Hero of Tippecanoe

On this President's Day, we can think of no better way to celebrate our nation's most exalted job than by recalling the wise, though incredibly logorrheic words of the starcrossed William Henry Harrison. As the American history nerds in the audience will recall, Harrison doomed himself to an early death by refusing to wear a coat or hat during his inaugural address in 1941. This turned out to be an excellent way of catching fatal pneumonia, given the chilly January rain combined with the...