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<text id=91TT1500>
<title>
July 08, 1991: American Notes:Presidents
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 08, 1991 Who Are We?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 27
American Notes
PRESIDENTS
Rest in Peace, Zach
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<p> It turns out that President Zachary Taylor was not poisoned
by political enemies who laced his iced cherries or milk with
arsenic after all. He died the old-fashioned way, of natural
causes, according to the medical examiner who studied Taylor's
remains last week. Clara Rising, an author researching a book on
Taylor, had raised the suspicion that "Old Rough and Ready" was
murdered.
</p>
<p> But there are still plenty of graves to plunder and
conspiracy theories to test. A team of scientists is planning
to exhume the remains of Carl A. Weiss, the doctor who is
believed to have assassinated Senator Huey Long of Louisiana
back in 1935. Weiss was gunned down at the scene by Long's
bodyguards. By analyzing the angles of the bullet holes, the
scientists may be able to show that the guards shot Long and
killed Weiss to cover their crime. Whether any new light can be
shed on that issue by examining a 56-year-old corpse remains
unclear. Is there no rest for the dead?
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</body></article>
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