Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Martin Van Buren, Heir-Apparent


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"[President Andrew] Jackson is open, bold, warm-hearted, confiding, and passionate to a fault. Van Buren is secret, sly, selfish, cold, calculating, distrustful, treacherous; and if he could gain an object just as well by openness as intrigue, he would choose the latter."


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