Something big happened at the Watergate in 1972 and it led to a very defensive President Nixon giving this painful press conference. This is not about that event. In true Ghosts of DC style, let's dig...
You read that correctly. As in Napoleon Bonaparte ... that is, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte III, the great-grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother. Oh, Jerome III was also the great-grandson of Daniel Webster. Impressive lineage.
What set me down this path was the photo below. I came across it on Shorpy and had to figure out the story behind this malcontent teenager.