I must say, Rick, I think you are being uncharitable to our presidents there. “Beautiful” of course won’t do in this context, but several of them were very fine-looking men, to judge from the portraits in my White House Historical Association 1975 edition of “The Presidents of the United States of America.” Washington was plain-looking, to be sure, and Lincoln was downright homely; but Jefferson, Pierce, and McKinley, at the least, look very handsome, even after discounting for the portraitist’s art.

I think the morphing software might have trouble with those great 19th-century beards, though.