Reply #15: I'm just relieved that Harriet Miers will be able to return to her old

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job -- you know, the one she had before she became Bush's counsel -- the lounge singer gig in El Paso.

Her fans have missed her.

Franklin Pierce's wife refused to live in the White House. After losing Benny, age 11, in that freak train accident, she blamed her husband for not telling her initially that he was running for president. She spent most of the rest of her life in despondent seclusion, writing letters to Benny in heaven.

Pierce took to the bottle and you know the rest of the tale.