This Presidents Day week, I am thinking of John Hancock.
Hancock was president of the Continental Congress, the body that named George Washington general of the Continental Army. Hancock was the Michael Bloomberg of his day — a politician simultaneously appreciated for his great wealth and resented for it.
A long, damning news story about Michael Bloomberg in The Washington Post this past weekend ends with an odd vignette designed to make the reader think the reporter isn't entirely out to get his subject.
Bloomberg, according to a former colleague, "changed a lot through the '90s" and eventually was "as fair to women as he was to men."
