James Buchanan James Boozecanan 4th of July Independence shirt

That question is being asked a lot, by scholars and columnists, and the result is a new spotlight on our 15th president, James Buchanan, who has locked down that spot for most of the past 159 years, since he slinked out of town on the eve of the Civil War. The Democrats did not sit still and let their only presidential candidate be called Biden in Beijing, and responded with a similar offensive campaign that stirred public opinion.