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I’d have to say “ouch” for James Buchanan

Brady Carlson
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…and “oh snap” to Abraham Lincoln:

In the White House Mary Todd objected to him feeding the cat at the dinner table with the official flatware. “If the gold fork was good enough for Buchanan,” he quipped, “I think it is good enough for Tabby.”

I found this quote on Buzzfeed, which is no doubt producing a list of 15 Reasons Why Cats Would Have Made Better Presidents Than James Buchanan.

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