
“Perhaps no other man ever elected to the presidency wanted it less than our 20th. He said himself, ‘This honor comes to me unsought. I have never had the Presidential fever, not even for a day.'”
http://fee.org/blog/detail/a-president-who-didnt-want-the-job
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