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During the semester, I shall post course material and students will comment on it. Students are also free to comment on any aspect of the presidency, either current or historical. There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges.

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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Early 19th Century Presidency

Writing

Jefferson inaugural:



The drunk version is fun and broadly true -- but it was a low-level bureaucrat, not Mrs. Madison, who saved the Declaration.


Andrew Jackson was bat-guano crazy.



"I should have hit him," said Jackson after the duel, "had he shot me through the brain."

Jackson and the Bank Veto






  Territorial expansion

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