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bryantSo here's the campaign. This is Mike's fault.
It's a little known fact, but once you've been President of the United States, you don't get to die. You live on in eternal unlife after your death; sure, you leave a corpse, because everyone likes funerals, but your Ka goes on.
Yes, Ka. Just like in Egypt. Look at the dollar bill; you think the pyramid isn't there for a reason?
You are bound to the country. You can speak to the current President, but each sentence you speak takes a year of his life. That's the real reason why Presidents age in office. Once a President leaves office you lose your connection to them, but you'll be there to welcome them to the afterlife, oh yes. It's the only excuse you have for a party.
You are as you were when you died. Everyone takes turns caring for Reagan. It's nervewracking; if he wanders off and finds his way to the White House, he could age any sitting President to death in one night of conversation.
Hoover and Nixon could hear the Dead Presidents, but did not join them in the afterlife. Ford never could hear them. Nobody tried talking to David Rice Atchison; everyone was very surprised when he arrived to join the rest of his comrades.
The ghosts of every Treasurer of the United States who ever lived serve the Dead Presidents in the afterlife.
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Date: 2004-10-05 05:43 pm (UTC)Hoover?
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Date: 2004-10-05 05:57 pm (UTC)The only two presidents fully impeached after proceedings was Richard M. "Oakland Raiders Fanatic" Nixon and Andrew Johnson in 1868. He was the man who succeeded Abraham Lincoln after Lincoln was killed in the Ford Theater, and brought up on charges after a 1866 ex-slave uprising in Memphis. It had more to do with the Reconstruction and war profiteering than anything else. However, Johnson was impeached but not removed from office.
Why do I know this? Because I am a HUGE THROBBING NERD.
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Date: 2004-10-05 06:14 pm (UTC)W. H. Harrison must be pissed. Pneumonia forever.
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Date: 2004-10-05 06:26 pm (UTC)And I got it! Nixon had a secretary named Hoover, and Hoover had a dog named Nixon! :D
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Date: 2004-10-05 06:34 pm (UTC)Is that really it,
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Date: 2004-10-05 06:33 pm (UTC)A built-in campaign Arch-Villain: the spectre of Jefferson Davis, bound to some of the same land, with his henchmen CSA Treasurers Memminger and Trenholm. (After all, the CSA used USA money for the first few months, and later the US Treasury printed CSA money to try to destabilize the currency, muddling with their Kas completely... it's all the Treasurers' faults for Davis & co sticking around.) Nobody's sure if they can talk to the current President or not, but why take a chance?
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Date: 2004-10-05 06:45 pm (UTC)I love the Davis idea. Love love love.
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Date: 2004-10-05 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-05 06:46 pm (UTC)I suppose Lincoln has it just as bad, though.
More nerdité
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Date: 2004-10-05 07:00 pm (UTC)On second thought, maybe that's what happened to W.H. Harrison.
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Date: 2004-10-05 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-05 07:39 pm (UTC)Is Hoover out because of the Great Depression?
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Date: 2004-10-05 07:54 pm (UTC)You can also talk to Reagan (for what it's worth) if you hold a seance watching one of his old movies. You don't have to be President or anything. Oh, but you have to be trepanned first.
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Date: 2004-10-05 08:01 pm (UTC)I'd add some stuff:
* Lincoln and Carter didn't suffer the aging from speaking to the Dead Presidents. . . because of their natural psychic abilities (Lincoln's prophetic dreams; Carter's seeing the UFO).
* What's up with Grover Cleveland? He's *two* Presidents -- non-consecutive terms.
* Power of the Ka = related to number of terms or span of years or popular recognizance? FDR is the Man on multiple counts.
* George Washington as founder of the Dynasty.
* Jefferson Davis is waiting for Alexander Haig to show up, maybe...
CU
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Date: 2004-10-05 08:31 pm (UTC)Power of the Ka is determined by the percentage of America that liked you on the day you left office. Clinton's smug.
Yes on Davis and Haig.
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Date: 2004-10-06 06:54 pm (UTC)In Paul Angle's history of early Springfield we find this story, which was a favorite of Lincoln's:
One day a meek-looking man applied to Thompson Campbell who, as Secretary of State, had custody of the State House, for permission to deliver a series of lectures in the Hall of the House of Representatives.
"May I ask," said Campbell, "what is to be the subject of your lectures?" "Certainly," was the solemn reply, "they are on the second coming of our Lord."
"It's no use," said Campbell, "if you will take my advice you will not waste your time in this city. It is my private opinion that if the Lord has been in Springfield once, he will not come the second time."
Can the Dead Presidents manifest in the places they held positions prior to achieving office? If not, you wind up with a band of ghost hunters shacking up in log cabin motels outside Dixon (Reagan's boyhood home), and running their psychic operations from the forgotten State Capitals. Just a thought ...
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