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When crafting the language of the Constitution, James Madison successfully insisted the word “slave” not be used.
David O. Stewart, Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), 40.
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President William Howard Taft lost his re-election campaign in 1912 by finishing in third place and winning only eight electoral votes (from Vermont and Utah).
Lewis L. Gould, The William Howard Taft Presidency (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009), 197. In 1955 at Princeton University, Ralph Nader had to slam on the breaks of his car to avoid hitting Albert Einstein when he strolled into the road.
Justin Martin, Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon (Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002), 21. Due to the presence of four major candidates in the presidential election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln received the most popular votes with just 39%.
Russell McClintock, Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008), 28. |
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