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James K Polk

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• Originally published 03/24/2017

  A President’s Restless Corpse May Be on the Move Again in Tennessee

  James K. Polk’s body has been buried in three places. Lawmakers are now considering moving it again, to the site of a Polk family home and museum in Columbia, Tenn.

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• Originally published 03/08/2017

  You Think History’s Predictable? Consider This.

  Ronald L. Feinman

  Ten times in American history death could well have altered the course of events.

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• Originally published 09/21/2015

  This Is How Wild Politics Used to Be

  Greg Bailey

  A story from the time of Abe Lincoln that makes our current vim and vigor look almost pale by comparison.

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• Originally published 08/04/2015

  Jeb Bush Admires a Really Lousy President — And It’s Not His Brother

  John Nichols

  James K. Polk was condemned by John Quincy Adams, Henry David Thoreau, and Abraham Lincoln on issues of human bondage and lawless militarism.

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• Originally published 07/15/2015

  Jeb Bush’s favorite president is ... James K. Polk?

  “He said what he was going to do and he did what he said he was going to do, and then he left,” Bush said.