James K Polk

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-24-17
  

  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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• 3-12-17
  

  You Think History’s Predictable? Consider This.

  by Ronald L. Feinman

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

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• 10-18-15
  

  This Is How Wild Politics Used to Be

  by 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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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8-3-15
  

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

  by 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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• SOURCE: The Des Moines Register
  7-13-15
  

  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.