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In the film Hawkeye is married with children, but in the TV series he is a bachelor and something of a ladies' man. He was given the nickname Hawkeye by his father, from the character in the novel The Last of the Mohicans, the only book my old man ever read. His birth name is taken from a member of Hooker's own family named Franklin Pierce.
Friday, November 23, is the 203rd anniversary of the birth of America's 14th president, Franklin Pierce -- a man who, perhaps more than any other, paved the way for his speedy replacement by America's 15th president.