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His hard work and guile, coming from modest roots, created a template for modern political parties. It was Van Buren who mastered the political system in New York State in the generation after the Founding Fathers. Van Buren is an important historical figure, but not as a President. But there’s more to Van Buren than whiskers and a three-part name. There has been a bit of a renaissance of interest in perhaps the hairiest of presidents, Martin Van Buren.
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I can also see how a full beard might have come in handy when I had to feed our cows in freezing weather.On the anniversary of Martin Van Buren's birthday, Co nstitution Daily looks at the man who helped to create our modern two-party political system, well before he became eighth President.
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And if my face had been covered in facial hair maybe it wouldn’t now be covered in skin cancer. If I added up all the time and money I’ve wasted on razor blades over the years I’d probably own a big ranch and be a billionaire by now. I don’t care if they do take huge chunks out of my cheeks, at least I’m not having to dip into our retirement savings to purchase shaving equipment. Thank goodness dollar stores came along where I can buy a whole bag of throwaway razors for a buck. Men and women don’t just shave these days with a razor and a blade, oh no, they have to use a “shaving system” so Proctor and Gamble and Gillette can charge you $25 for a package of blades. Then there’s the costs associated with shaving. Fast forward to today when everyone has facial hair and being clean shaven means I stick out worse than the wart on Abe Lincoln’s face.
I was also a chronic bleeder which meant I always had several tiny pieces of toilet paper with red dots in the middle all over my face when I went out in public. First, I’m nearly blind and not being able to see my face in the foggy mirror meant one sideburn was always an inch or two higher then the other and a chunk would be missing from my nose, ear and/or both.
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I encountered many problems being a serial shaver. Except for those days spent in a coma, from the time I started shaving at 16 until I turned 65 I shaved nearly every day of my life. Fast forward to today and any self-respecting man has some sort of beard, mustache, fu man chu, soul patch, flavor saver or soup strainer. I had eight uncles and, as I recall, there wasn’t a beard in the bunch, although I did have an aunt with a mustache. While my generation was famous for growing our hair long in almost every instance, we budding baby boomers were clean shaven.
(In Abe’s case he had a good reason, he was uglier than a mud fence.) Then for no discernible reason, presidents became clean shaven again and the last president who had any kind of facial hair was William Taft who was our 27th president. Then Abe started a trend of nine presidents who wore some kind of facial hair. If you look at pictures of our presidents you’ll see that only one or two of our presidents up until Abe Lincoln had facial hair. Does PETA throw paint on them thinking they’re wearing wool?īeards and mustaches are a generational thing. They have so much facial hair one wonders if they go out in public. Have you ever noticed the obligatory five or six young men standing behind every Grand Champion steer or heifer at a major livestock show who were responsible for grooming the animal? While every hair is in place on the bovine the talented fellas responsible look like they just spent six months as roustabouts in northern Alaska without access to running water or shaving utensils.
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