The ghost of James Buchanan is celebrating.

[First Speaker]

9. Thank you for this...

...he was also clearly paranoid at the Paris Peace Conference, and greatly enjoyed exercising almost dictatorial powers both during and after the War--indeed, the closest thing we've ever had to a dictator. And had he bothered to compromise even a little, on non-essential points, he would have had his League of Nations. I have never understood the esteem which he's held by the Schlesinger school of liberal historians...