THE NEXT U.S. PRESIDENT

By: IZAKOVIC

CREATED 01-22-2001

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INAUGURATION

At noon, on a cold, drizzly Saturday, January 20, 2001, George Walker Bush was inaugurated 43rd president of the United States. 

Bush, whose hairbreadth election was cemented by a Supreme Court decision five weeks after the ballots were cast, raised his right hand and swore the oath of the office and promised to bring civility, courage, compassion and character to the White House. Bush's wife, Laura, and 19-year-old twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara, stood with him as he took the oath, hand on the same Bible his father used in 1989.

In the pageantry of the transfer of power, George Herbert Walker Bush, brushed back a tear as he stood proud witness to his son's inauguration 12 years after his own.

In his 15-minutes long inaugural speech, Bush outlined his priorities, promoting what had been major campaign themes and offered a salute to his ex opponent Gore for a contest conducted with spirit and ended with grace.

TECUMSEH AND THE PROPHET

Tecumseh was born in 1768, near the present Xenia, Ohio. At the moment of his birth, a comet flashed low across the sky. Boy's father, a highly respected Shawnees warrior named Puckesinwa, himself the grandson of a famous chief, named his son Tecumseh, meaning Panther crossing the Sky.

As Tecumseh grew in the company of six siblings, the Shawnees came into more frequent contact with whites settling in Kentucky and West Virginia. Soon the first conflicts over the land ownership followed, lading to his fathers death by the white hand in 1774. 

Over the following years Tecumseh become an eloquent and energetic warrior and Shawnees leader and his brother Tenskwatawa, gifted with true prophetic capabilities, grow in to tribe's religious authority earning the title of the Prophet. They fought in many battles with whites and witnessed many deaths among which were that of Tecumseh's mentor, the famous Shawnees chieftain Cornplanter and of his older brother Chiksika. 

In May, 1808, a new Indian village, known as Prophet's Town, was established at the Wabash / Tippecanoe River junction, when they, left their native Ohio after being permitted by local tribes to settle on these lands. Driven by the way the whites have consistently broken treaties with the Indians over the years, Tecumseh and the Prophet planned to unite many tribes into an organized defense against the growing number of western settlers. Through this union, they have planed to defend the lands they had lived on for thousands of years.

In addition to being a seat of diplomacy, Prophet's Town became a training center for the warriors, with a rigorous spiritual and athletic regimen. As many as one thousand warriors were based in the capitol at its peak.

Leaving his brother  in charge, in the 1811 Tecumseh set off on a journey that took him west of the Mississippi, south to the Gulf of Mexico, and across the southeast, seeking to warn the Indian peoples of the need to unify against the whites.

In his absence the astute and ambitions governor of the Indiana territory, William Henry Harrison, divined Tecumseh's great plan and thwarts it by provoking the Prophet into the Battle of Tippecanoe, with results so disastrous to the Indian cause that the amalgamation largely disintegrates. 

When Tecumseh returned, he found all of his carefully laid plans of Indian confederation in disarray. Furious, he asked his brother to go to live somewhere else because he was not sure that he could restrain himself forever from killing him. Scorned by the Indians and renounced by Tecumseh, the Prophet took refuge along nearby Wildcat Creek. Although remaining in disgrace, the Prophet retained a small band of followers, who roamed with him through the Northwest and Canada during the War of 1812. He died in Wyandotte County, Kansas, in November, 1834.

Unable to make peace with honor with Harrison, Tecumseh, with only a small number of followers remaining, had then no choice but to support the British in their struggle against the Americans. Initially successful, subsequently this coalition lost ground and on October 5, 1813, when the American forces under Harrison caught up with the British and Indians near present-day Chatham, Tecumseh was killed in battle.

Thereafter, general Harrison returned to civilian life and, as a national hero, soon served as U.S. representative from Ohio, Member of Ohio state senate, U.S. senator from Ohio and finally, U.S. minister to Colombia.

THE CURSE OF THE PROPHET

Years after the Tecumseh's death, his brother, the Prophet, set a curse on William Henry Harrison saying to one of his prisoners:

Harrison will not win this year to be the Great Chief. But he may win next year. If he does...He will not finish his term. He will die in his office.

After his visitor protested pointing out that no president has ever died in office, Prophet replied:

But Harrison will die I tell you. And when he dies you will remember my brother Tecumseh's death. You think that I have lost my powers. I who caused the sun to darken and Red Men to give up firewater. But I tell you Harrison will die. And after him, every Great Chief chosen every 20 years thereafter will die. And when each one dies, let everyone remember the death of our people.

Harrison was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for President in 1836. 

Second Harrison's campaign for president in 1840 was the best organized, most exciting ever seen up to that time. He won by a majority of less than 150,000, but swept the Electoral College, 234 to 60.

Exhausted from the campaign, Harrison left for Washington, D.C. in early 1841. Inauguration Day was cold and windy. The speech that Harrison gave lasted more than two hours. He refused to wear a coat during this speech and returned home chilled and tired.

The next four weeks were extremely busy for the new president. His health was getting worse each day. One month into his presidency, he died of pneumonia.

William Henry Harrison was the first President to die in office.

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