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March 7, 1877 Letter to Catherine Gansevoort Lansing
page 3 of 4, detail

1877 

"How about President Hayes? I chanced to turn over a file of your Albany Argus yesterday, and was all but blown off the stool by the tremendous indignation fulminations of that indignant sheet.-- But what's the use? life is short, and Hayes' term is four years, each of 365 days." -- Herman Melville on disputed election of 1876

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Letter to Catherine Gansevoort Lansing" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1877. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5f45d7b0-48e9-0137-2460-041ef56914b0

1971

Firesign Theatre bit on breaking the Fake President from I Think We're all Bozos on This Bus:

2021