Anybody out there still a Civil War buff? If so, you must be fond of Franklin Pierce. He STARTED it, except not on purpose.
Let me explain.
Franklin Pierce was a really nice, well-meaning, likeable person. He just was not very good at being the President, so he accidentally triggered the Civil War, and thousands of people died.
Whoops-a-daisy.
What happened was that nobody liked those damn Whigs. (F the Whigs! Is anybody still in that party? In case you are, F you too.)
So Franklin got elected instead based on being JOVIAL.
Everybody, especially these days, hates the President of the United States. But then the President secretly does a good job behind everybody's back. This was the opposite. Everybody liked Franklin Pierce, but he ruined the country anyway. At least for awhile. I wasn't around yet but I've heard that the "Roaring Twenties" were pretty decent.
Franklin Pierce's nickname was "doughface." Not just for him, it was a hurtful term that people liked to throw around frequently back then. It was believed by the North that he liked the South too much, so they decided to get back at him by calling him doughface. So then we had a Civil War, and history was never the same.
You were a bad President, but at least you tried your best, doughface.
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