THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT JAMES BUCHANAN One hundred years ago, today, in the stately mansion just a stone's throw from the building where we are gathered, James Buchanan clad in a dressing gown and slippers, sat alone in his study trying to calm his nerves and to itemize a list of incidentals

JAMES BUCHANAN AND ANN COLEMAN BY PHILIP SHRIVER KLEIN* T IS a particular honor and pleasure to me to have the oppor- I tunity of addressing an audience in Lancaster on the subject of James Buchanan and Ann Colemani Their story has always been deeply rooted in the traditions of this community, and

made them famous had not their political errors served to overshadow their other successes. The men referred to are the Fifteenth President of our Nation, the Honorable James Buchanan; and a Secretary of War under Mr. Buchanan's successor, the Honorable Simon Cameron. A unique pair indeed. Mr. Buchanan

Lancaster in 1845 to become assistant surveyor at the port in Philadelphia under an appointment from President James K. Polk, the first of five consecutive presidents under whose administrations he would hold office. But once in Philadelphia it was not too long before Forney was back in a newspaper office

free land that we honor Lincoln. Lincoln seems a long way from James Logan, the subject of this paper— and he was, not only in time, more than a hundred years, but in thought con- cerning the common man, in the attitudes of humility versus arrogance, and in concept of the purpose of government. James