National Perspective — David Shribman — September 27, 2017

David Shribman

One of them campaigned for income supplements for veterans of the American Revolution. Another came into prominence for vetoing an inflated street-cleaning contract in Buffalo, New York. A third boasted of not being a Julius Caesar nor a Napoleon, but a "plain Hoosier colonel, with no more relish for a fight than for a good breakfast and hardly so much."

Happy Presidents Day. And a brisk salute for three chief executives seldom held in high regard: James Buchanan, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison.

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