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Before the British burned the President’s House (White House) during the War of 1812, the troops drank some wine and ate some of the food that had been prepared for dinner.
Gene Allen Smith, The Slaves’ Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 123.
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When speaking in opposition to the Aldrich-Vreeland bill in 1908, Senator Robert La Follette broke the record for the longest filibuster by speaking for 18 hours and 23 minutes; lines of spectators wanting to watch filled the Capitol’s halls.
Michael Wolraich, Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2014), 119-20. |
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