By SAM ROBERTS
c.2010 New York Times News Service
Finding a politician’s mouth has rarely been a problem – unless it has been missing since 1834.
That is the year when an angry Whig sympathizer decapitated a figurehead of Andrew Jackson that had just been affixed to the bow of the USS Constitution in the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston.
The mouth and the rest of the head eventually went their separate ways.