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   7. Merkin Muffley had the bad luck to be President when nuclear   
      war broke out, annihilating all of humanity.  However, to the   
      very end he was determined to make sure that his staffers would   
      not fight in the War Room.   
      
   8. Jack Stanton, a charming Southern governor with a knack for   
      speaking to the common man, was also unfortunately a womanizer   
      who cheated on his wife regularly, but nonetheless ran a   
      successful campaign for the presidency.   
      
   9. Selina Meyer initially became president by rising to the office   
      from the vice-presidency, then lost her election, and then   
      won a subsequent election to become president by courting   
      conservatives, running against same-sex marriage, and allowing   
      China to re-annex Tibet.  Her presidencies were politely   
      described as "underrated" by historians.   
      
   10. Tom Kirkman never planned to be President, but when the US   
      Capitol was blown up during the State of the Union address,   
      Kirkman -- about to be fired as the Secretary of Housing and   
      Urban Development -- was the sole member of Cabinet not killed,   
      and thus ascended to the presidency.   
      
   --   
   Mark Brader     |     "As the old saying goes: those who learn history   
   Toronto         |      are doomed to watch others repeat it."   
   msb@vex.net     |                                       --Peter Moylan   
      
   My text in this article is in the public domain.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)