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There were bad omens early. Pierce spent only $322 on his Inaugural ceremony, which his wife did not attend. They canceled the Inaugural Ball. It snowed. Pierce loved conviviality and booze. (No sign of Jimmy Carter so far.)
Pierce was neither strong nor vigorous, but he decided to sound that way for the sake of his image. He sent a warship to Nicaragua when a U.S. citizen was assaulted, then was shocked when the ship's captain leveled a village under British protection. Turning to Cuba next...
The fellow who was shabbily treated was Franklin Pierce. He provides a thin precedent; yet it is instructive. In most personal ways he was not at all like Carter Back in 1852, when a messenger galloped up to the Pierce carriage to tell him that he had been nominated for...
A large body of the Democrats who nominated Pierce in a steamy Baltimore convention didn't want him to be President any more than did Jane Appleton Pierce. It took three days and 49 ballots, and they ended with a Northerner who by some bizarre logic found that the...
Pierce, Neb.