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#1540 The Jeffersonians in Power

Listening to America

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Theodore Roosevelt's Disappointment of Andrew Jackson

Theodore Roosevelt despised both of them because they disarm the nation and they blunder their way into Second War of national independence. But one way of understanding it is who knows what would have happened if it hadn't been for Andrew Jackson. We had two competent generals in the war, Jackson and William Henry Harrison. And the rest of them were just, it's hard to exaggerate the incompetence.

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