The beard, which in my lifetime has been treated as synonymous ... But once the 16th president took the oath, the fashion gathered steam among the nation’s leaders until, in Gore Vidal’s words, “all ...

Many of the analysts back then had said that Al Gore would sink the Clinton campaign, but he went on to win by a large margin. Thomas Whalen, another presidential historian opined that the beard ...

The beard, which in my lifetime has been treated ... the fashion gathered steam among the nation’s leaders until, in Gore Vidal’s words, “all sorts of odd excrescences had begun to blossom ...