echoes

When William Jennings Bryant up and quit
his party took it for a baleful sign.
There followed Wilson's apoplectic fit,
and then, one'd look a blackguard to resign.
His staffers muddled through as best they could
and punted big decisions to his wife
who signed the bills she knew her Woodrow would
clandestine monument to his short life.
So now, the house of Trump is poised to fall.
each day, his Secretaries get to weigh
the point at which to make that judgement call
if honor's better served to go, or stay, 
aware how Powell's name was used to sell
the pointless war which made Iraq a Hell