100 Objects #13: The Sand Letters

This episode is sponsored by Claude. For problems worth solving, get started with Claude at Claude.ai . On his deathbed, President Chester Arthur ordered that all of his personal and professional papers be burned. Three barrels of documents went up in flames. But 23 letters survived, initialed only "J.I.S." Comedian Elliott Kalan joins Roman Mars to tell the story of how a politician who owed so…