[Non-Sequitur]

Anyone here surprised that the first to break this ‘gentleman’s agreement’ was a Democrat?

But the first to try was a Republican. Grant made a strong try for the GOP nomination in 1880.

[allmendream]

Ha ha! Oh those Republicans, they just can’t be bad like Democrats and get away with it. Poor ol’ President Grant, he probably needed the money, and being President paid well. I hear that sales of his ‘memoirs’ basically paid the rent later in his life. I keep meaning to read them as they are said to be the best of any presidential memoirs.