Rick:

At the risk of making something interesting out of this, I should like you,

as a credentialed expert on these things, to pronounce on the following:

Who was our most boring president?

Qualifying criteria should be:

—Utter absence of any original or imaginative thinking, on the evidence of

his public speeches and writings.

—Ditto of any intersting personal quirks or idiosyncracies.

—Ditto of any evidence of esthetic or literary sensibility.

—Ditto of achievement in any field outside the political.

In the event of a tie, I think extra points could go for having a

particularly boring family–no black sheep, I mean.