By almost universal agreement, the most vague and ineffectual of all Presidents was Millard Fillmore, who succeeded to the office in 1850 upon the death of Zachary Taylor, and spent the next three years demonstrating how the country would have been run if they had just propped Taylor up in a chair with cushions.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "By almost universal agreement, the most vague and ineffectual of all Presidents was Millard Fillmore, who succeeded to the office in 1850 upon the death of Zachary Taylor, and spent the next three years demonstrating how the country would have been run if they had just propped Taylor up in a chair with cushions." in the context of "Bill Bryson, in I'm a Stranger Here Myself (US) / Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.