Status Updates From To the End of a Career (Gro...

[Finished the text.] "It is a choice between evils, and I am going to shut my eyes, hold my nose, vote, go home, and disinfect myself." -- J. Sterling Morton to Grover Cleveland at the approach of the 1900 election, and the thought on the mind of every American voter before and since.

A much-deserved retirement; then an honorable position at Princeton.

Silver wins the 1896 Democratic nomination.

A sampling of presidential melancholia: 'I know the clouds will roll away, but I do not know who, before that time, will be drowned in their floods.'

Never have I felt so bad about a president signing legislation he asked for, though clearly what he got bared little resemblance to what he wanted.

Cleveland's only blatant lie: The great secret surgery. He recovered from it with the same resolve he showed in his political stands. Immovable.

This guy has balls of steel.

The Pullman strike spreads from Chicago across the country.

Cleveland adds John Carlisle and Richard Only to his second cabinet.

Cleveland returns to private practice