The Strange History of Presidents and the Public

In the 19th century, political violence in the U.S. was not that uncommon. "I've always wondered why there wasn't more of this sort of thing, just like taking potshots at the White House," he says. The casual nature of the president's relationship to the public was pretty much the norm until relatively recently.

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