A Conversation for William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Started conversation Aug 4, 2009
I've always found this inauguration a particularly strange chapter in Presidential history.
Aside from the obvious moral - longwindedness leading to death - it seems to have been the start of the urban legend about presidents elected in certain years falling victim to some sort of Indian curse.
The pattern of presidents dying in office every 20 years seems to have been broken now, but that was a tabloid favourite for awhile.
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