CNNW The Presidential Inauguration January 20, 2013
Taylor. Reporter without twitter, facebook or cnn, news of emergencies travelled a lot slower in 1849. So there was no reason to explore the power vacuum at the time. In fact, atchison slept most of the day, tuckered out bay lot of lastminute business in the senate, some things never change. Still, some of atchisons friends reportedly could not resist. That night, some of his colleagues in the senate woke him up in the middle of the night to ask him to appoint them the secretary of state and other members of the cabinet. All in good fun, it seems, but out in kansas theyve got their story and a...