and his partner, benjamin bristow, became secretary of the treasure in the grant administration. and the reason for that was he was sort of mr. clean and grant had all kinds of corruption problems. and he brought in bristow to try to clean the place up. bristow, also interestingly enough, was the nation's first solicitor general. and so bristow, after about a year, took a look at the situation, decided he needed to get out, he was afraid his reputation would get smeared. why am i telling you about harlan's partner? there is a point. in 1876, after eight years of grant, the republicans, harlan thought, needed to do something different. and so mr. clean he thought would be the perfect nominee for president. so the republican convention was in cincinnati. in those days you weren't supposed to act like you wanted it. so bristow didn't go to cincinnati. harlan did, to try to get bristow the presidential nomination. when it didn't happen, harlan switched the bristow delegates to rutherford b. hayes, which is how he got on the supreme court and served for 30 years. the reason i have john