Monday, February 18, 2008

Daddy or Child of POTUS

Ironically, George Washington, "father" of a whole country, sired no little people of his own, although he was step-pa to Custis's of Martha.

However, since President's Day (once Washington and Lincoln got their own national birthday holidays and then their birthdays were combined) doesn't actually celebrate presidents — where are the Tyler, Garfield or Arthur or other obscure president's festivities taking place, for example — perhaps we can build a movement to have it celebrate fathers of presidents as Harold Gullen does in "First Fathers," or, maybe, it would be more fruitful to raise a glass of good cheer to how being president has influenced his (always, so far) children, except in the case of James Buchanan an unmarried man claiming no legitimate offspring or James Madison, James K. Polk or Warren G. Harding, who all claimed no children at all.

** Father is the man not the job, but the job will change the man. **

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