Tuesday, August 12, 2008

A couple of glaring National Portrait Gallery omissions

Received this via the magical email upon return from work:

Also, on your Portrait Gallery portion, you got nothing on Van Buren's pay-ola stack. Regrettable oversight.


This blogger regrets the error. Martin Van Buren, 8th President of these United States from 1837 to 1841, holds what appears in my mind to be a stack of bribes or maybe just some leftover friendly cash in conveniently non-conspicuous envelopes. This conjecture always results in a solid giggle, if not a hearty snicker, upon its viewing. I submit to you, what we like to call, "Payola":





Another favorite is a large and apparently gregarious Grover Cleveland, the 22nd (1885 to 1889) AND the 24th (1893 to 1897) President of these United States, as he finds time in his busy day of paperwork to remove his spectacles and lean every so comfortably back in his chair to receive a guest. You can almost hear a hearty bear guffaw as he exclaims the joy in receiving this unseen visitor. Another National Portrait Gallery favorite, forgotten upon these bloggish pages until just now:

We wholeheartedly regret these blatant omissions.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ah yes. The chronicle is now complete.

More Presidents should be memorialized with their payola in hand. After all, isn't that how it works?

J.