The President Is a Sick Man by Matthew Algeo

he was born in 1837, at 16 he left school, he moved to buffalo. nobody had ever heard of him four years before.

but that wasn't the case when grover cleveland was elected. There's a list of 30, 50, 100 people who might be president, and probably even the next two or three presidents, we've heard their name. mark twain gave it that name that was not intended to be a compliment. and and it was the gilded age,, is what it was called. so it was a lot of fun to go back and learn things that probably i should have been taught earlier but that you can learn at the museum of american finance today. you know, the civil war, world war ii, world war i maybe, but kind of the 1880's and 1890's i didn't know a lot about. there were a lot of things going on in the 1890's which is sort of a dead spot for me in my history, you know. and then as i, as i dug deeper into it, i found it wasn't just the story of this operation, it was really the story of the economy at the time, and it was also a story about medicine, and it's a story about journalism as well. so i realized there there was a possibility of doing something about this story. Know he was a bit of a saver, since he saved the tumor, but he also saved all his correspondence and clippings and lots of information about the operation which, of course, was intended to be secret. so it was very helpful to me, the museum of american finance.

but more importantly, when i was researching the book, the museum was very helpful in answering my questions, and i would have frantic questions like how many grains of silver were in a silver dollar in 1870, and this is the only place that you could send an e-mail with that urgency and get it answered within an hour. one, it's a fantastic museum, and i've been coming to the museum for a few years now. it's great to be at the museum of american finance, for a couple of reasons. matthew: boy, you make it sound much more interesting than it is, my life. it's my pleasure to introduce matthew algeo. and very importantly, he is a friend to this museum and a member of it.

A convenience store clerk, and all this is going to put him in good stead because in two months he's moving to mongolia with his wife, who is a foreign service officer who is taking a position there, so that should be pretty interesting.

The President Is a Sick Man by Matthew Algeo