Millard Fillmore died on March 8, 1874, 133 years ago tomorrow.
Of course, he is interred in Buffalo, New York, his base of political power and home where he practiced those civic virtues that got him elected Vice President and nominated President. There are people who visit presidential gravesites, and here is an account of one fellow who is working to visit as many as he can. Notice the snow. It is Buffalo, after all.
Fillmore’s dying words were reputed to have been something about the ‘sustenance’ being ‘palatable.’ I suspect that, as with so much else about Fillmore, the attributed quote is not accurate. I find the word “palatable” in a subhead of one of the death notices in a newspaper, but no reporter was present. Heck, I’m beginning to wonder about Fillmore’s State of the Union speeches.
What were Fillmore’s dying words, really?
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Millard Fillmore’s grave in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York. Photo by Keven Petersen, via FindaGrave.com
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
Ouch! And wrong. Kennedy was a reporter, once. So was TR.
Thanks for the pointer.
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” . . . but no reporter was president.” Now there’s a Freudian slip!
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