Bald men are hairy on the inside.
Now that this has resurfaced, the Kansas Historical Society acknowledges such an origin for the cottonwood tree on the grounds of the state capitol, but does not endorse it as the likely provenance of the tree:
Burr nobley shot high; Hamilton naively shot backwards.
Some great entries here, I think the thread is worth reviving- especially since the intervening years have given us so much material for semi-plausible lies.
The shift of the 1930s Supreme Court away from a judicial philosophy of strictly limited federal powers towards an extremely expansive reading of federal authority was not, as popularly imagined, due to President Roosevelt’s threat to pack the court, but rather because Roosevelt had FBI director J. Edgar Hoover amass blackmail files on all the justices.