No. 15
September 3, 2009 
I've been far too busy of late to do anything really new, but all these sketches around the studio are like promises made but never kept. Better to get them up on the site and out of here. As an example: I had a 'brilliant' concept of doing a series of portraits of Presidents of the United States. That particular idea lasted, oh, about three days. What did I get out of it? Well...
James Buchanan (1791 – 1868) was the 15th President of the United States from 1857–1861. To date he is the only President from the state of Pennsylvania and the only president to remain a lifelong bachelor.
Buchanan's efforts to maintain peace between the North and the South alienated both sides, and as the Southern states declared their secession in the prologue to the American Civil War, Buchanan's opinion was that secession was illegal, but that going to war to stop it was also illegal; hence, he remained inactive. By the time he left office, popular opinion had turned against him, and the Democratic Party had split in two. His handling of the crisis preceding the Civil War has led to his consistent ranking by historians as one of the worst Presidents in American history.
Worst Presidents in American history? Now there's an idea for a series. Wait a minute - with the exception of a few, it'd be like doing the original idea all over again.
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