Bachelor president

September 16, 2012 12:01 am

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In Michael Kazin's Sept. 9 Forum article "What's So Great About Family Men?" his last line states: "Perhaps we will have to wait for the first unmarried president -- straight or gay, male or female -- to burst the sentimental bubble."

Has Mr. Kazin forgotten that the United States has had an unmarried president? In 1856, James Buchanan Jr. from Pennsylvania, a lifelong bachelor, was nominated and served from 1857 to 1861.

DAWN BACH
North Versailles


First Published September 16, 2012 12:00 am

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