The Pardon of President Martin Van Buren

Bob Greene: Martin Van Buren painted with a very broad brush. He basically calls him a basket of deplorables, he says. Greene: But what got me, Bob, was he said something about the piety or the piousness. And Andrew Jackson, who he had only months ago, defeated in the house vote for the presidency jumps on it and says, "Oh, clutch the pearls" Green: I can't believe he would say that the common man should not have a say in how the federal money is spent.