The People's Choice, from Washington to Harding: A Study in DemocracyA candid inquiry into the policies & personalities of America's presidents, sweeping away popular misconceptions. A U.S. history as seen from the White House. |
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... cause when he became head of a government formed to safeguard the rights of property - Tom Paine , for example ... cause still , though some of his former followers were just beginning to discover what that cause was . Washington had no ...
... cause when he became head of a government formed to safeguard the rights of property - Tom Paine , for example ... cause still , though some of his former followers were just beginning to discover what that cause was . Washington had no ...
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... cause of the struggle in the Senate . Congress , at the instigation of Representative Wilmot , from Pennsylvania , had tried to prohibit slavery forever from this new land . The Southern Senators blocked the attempt , and the Northern ...
... cause of the struggle in the Senate . Congress , at the instigation of Representative Wilmot , from Pennsylvania , had tried to prohibit slavery forever from this new land . The Southern Senators blocked the attempt , and the Northern ...
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... cause , that they had identified free silver not only with their prosperity , but with truth and goodness and decency . And their opponents , the more con- servative Democrats from the Eastern industrial States , had made the same ...
... cause , that they had identified free silver not only with their prosperity , but with truth and goodness and decency . And their opponents , the more con- servative Democrats from the Eastern industrial States , had made the same ...
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WASHINGTON | 3 |
JOHN ADAMS AND JEFFERSON | 32 |
MADISON MONROE AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 72 |
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