You all no doubt noticed that the second-to-last graf of SOTU mentioned the author of the Preamble to the Constitution, and hence of “We the People…”–our most delightful founding father, and one of our best founding writers, the peg-legged ladies’ man Gouverneur Morris.

This is not the first time a president has come in contact with Gouverneur Morris: he was a friend of George Washington’s; Abraham Lincoln mentioned him as an anti-slavery Framer in the Cooper Union address; and Theodore Roosevelt wrote a biography of him. But so far as I know, this is his debut in SOTU.

I don’t think it is breaching national security to say that I gave some advice on minor points: what the Articles of Confederation, which Morris was superseding, said; how to pronounce his first name (there are different theories).

If Morris mentions occur at the same rate, I will not be around for the next one, but I am pleased to have contributed to this.