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“Assassination can no more be guarded against than death by lightning,” says Garfield, who as portrayed by Michael Shannon is the kind of Garfield that a Garfield admirer wants to see: virtuous, self-possessed, impeccably honest and naturally laconic—except when addressing the 1880 Republican Convention in Chicago.

That the longtime Ohio congressman did not seek but was drafted for the job — a compromise chosen, against his protests, on the 36th ballot at the 1880 Republican National Convention, where he’d given a stirring speech to nominate a fellow Ohioan, Treasury Secretary John Sherman — made him, one might say, especially qualified for the job; unlike some politicians one might name, he was self-effacing and humble and not out for personal gain.

“I would rather be with you and defeated than against you and victorious,” he tells a group of Black veterans gathered on his front porch, from which he conducted his campaign.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are quietly going about their business but have a tough run coming up, while the Green Bay Packers lead the NFC North but have also thrown in some dodgy defeats against the Cleveland Browns and Carolina Panthers.

So as it stands the Chiefs are on the outside looking in, but only a brave man would back against them finding their way in.