You won't find our faces on dollars or on cents
There's Taylor, there's Tyler, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes!
There's William Henry Harrison - "I died in thirty days!"
We are the adequate, forgettable, occasionally regrettable
Caretaker presidents of the U.S.A!
Song lyrics from an episode of The Simpsons, a salute to some of the presidential names that don't immediately spring to the front of the average person's mind. The U.S. Mint isn't actually setting out to rectify that situation because of the show, but it is a way to honor some of the men who've held the post of the highest official in this land of ours, in the same way that they honored all of the 50 states with their own quarter, which has proven to be a big success with the general public.
The director of the U.S. Mint, Edmund Moy, right, unveiling a series of one-dollar coins that is to portray every deceased president today in Washington, D.C.
MONEY,MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY
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