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1. Allow me to introduce you to Stephen G. Cleveland, Thomas W. Wilson and John C. Coolidge Jr. Franklin Pierce (answer c) had nothing to hide but a drinking problem.

2. Which of our presidents was a lapsed journalist? Although Theodore Roosevelt was a self-aggrandizing megalomaniac, he somehow missed his vocation. John Kennedy was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author with superb taste in ghostwriters, but the millionaire prince never pretended to be a journalist. No, the stigma is on "Scoop" Harding (answer c) of The Marion Star, Ohio's gift to journalism.

3. Andrew Jackson was a military hero, but in his less glorious past he had been elected to Congress. James Buchanan also served in Congress before beginning his distinguished diplomatic career and abysmal presidency. William Howard Taft was almost a political innocent. He never had to smile, grovel or pander to be solicitor general or secretary of war, but he was elected to the Superior Court of Ohio. There was a good reason why Herbert Hoover (answer d) was so maladroit. An engineer and secretary of commerce, Hoover never had a sordid and grueling but useful apprenticeship in politics. ...