Hurray for Cleveland! The Republican National Committee has announced that the party’s 2016 convention will be held in Cleveland. It will be the 41st Republican National Convention, in an unbroken quadrennial change that goes back to the 1856 National Convention of the newly formed party in Philadelphia.

I’ve attended, in one way, shape or form, 10 of those conventions and look forward to the 11th—especially because the weather is likely to be very good in Cleveland. Much better, almost assuredly, than in the runner-up city, Dallas. When Republicans held their 1984 convention there, the high temperature each day, was as I remember, 106 degrees Fahrenheit; at night it cooled down to 99 F.

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