One day during the inauguration ceremony, William Harrison went to take the stand at the podium when he notices the weather may not be suitable for him to make a speech. Knowing that, he decides to go ahead as planned hoping to inspire the crowd, after all he was a war hero and led people into believing that he's a common folk who drinks hard cider despite not being as such. But the campaign worked and enabled him to win the election over the incumbent Van Buren.
Then his advisor came and said "Mr. President, I think we should postpone the ceremony,"
"No thank you, besides if we do that then people will view me as a weakling with no power, I can't let that happen!" said Harrison
"But you do have no power! Remember you're going to do what your party members going to tell you to do,"
"Whatever, I'm not going to let them think I'm a coward so we're going through with the ceremony as planned!"
"If you say so...could I get you a jacket?"
"No thank you, the weather's not that bad, just a slight drizzle,"
"Are you sure about this?"
"Yes, also I need to show the people that I'm a badass who won't back down, a crummy weather won't stop me and besides, what can possibly go wrong?"
Harrison would eventually go on to make one of the longest inauguration speeches in the history of the U.S. But then one month later, President William Harrison dies from illness (though likely somewhat unrelated to the weather) that may have been at the very least aggravated by the weather that day.
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this sounds familiar...