“Now, he travels about the country and through the cities in an English coach; has English servants, dressed in uniform. He is laced up in corsets, such as women in a town wear, and, if possible, tighter than the best of them. It would be difficult to say, from his personal appearance, whether he was man or woman, but for his large red and gray whiskers.”
– Davy Crockett, writing about the hideously-corrupt then-president Martin Van Buren, 1837.