"Sending me(Cdr. Howerton) to the White House would be like putting Stan Laurel in charge of a munitions plant."

Mr. Laurel was from England, but his buddy, one Oliver Norvell Hardy, from Harlem, Georgia, could perhaps have handled the hot spot. His Dad, Oliver Hardy, later a lawyer, was in Company K of the 16th Georgia. He was in Howell Cobb's brigade at Antietam, and at Gettysburg was in Wofford's brigade with my 18th Georgia relatives, in the wheatfield. Stan