It's been easy to bitch and moan about how much America sucks in recent years, but during this whole time the folks over at The Library of Congress have done a stunning job completing the digitization of the first 23 presidential libraries. I can't really wrap my head around such a feat, but I'd like to point out it's something that can easily be marked as something that does, in fact, make America great.
Again I have no idea how useful it may be - do we REALLY need 69,600 items from Benjamin Harrison? If Calvin Coolidge's nickname was "Silent Cal" then how are there 179,000 documents from him to pore through?
Here's a bit of TJ's first draft of The Declaration of Independence!
It's upside down.
And where is John Adams - of all the presidents, he was the one they always referred to as "one chatty motherfucker", and his shit's missing here?
Ha! Anyway, what a remarkable feat, one that should be cheered, despite my being a petty asshole.
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