Dr. Bumsted sends us an alert to a site dedicated to President Franklin Pierce, the Franklin Pierce Pages. A delight to historians, no?
Not necessarily. The page designers chose Pierce, our 14th President, as the most obscure and trivial of the presidents. They claim Pierce as even more trivial and obscure than Millard Fillmore!
How close did we come to having “the Millard Fillmore Pages?” You’ll shudder to find out.
Leo Todd relates the story, here, The Great Franklin Pierce Debate.
The wonders of the intertubes: We can afford to have a set of pages dedicated to our 14th President, Franklin Pierce! Let’s see you do that on broadcast or cable television, or on radio.
Tip of the old scrub brush to Dr. Bumsted.
