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CrabCake
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« on: September 10, 2014, 02:51:06 PM » |
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« edited: September 10, 2014, 03:57:38 PM by CrabCake »
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For some reason I started writing a post about Taft, and was going to post when I realised it was Polk. Odd.
Anyway, Polk is clearly the second-worst of the "influential/great Presidents" (first is Jackson). A slavery apologist, a blatant warmonger in the Mexican-Spanish war and the resulting Texas Annexation - I agree with General Grant - America had never looked more like a European imperial power than under Polk.
He was competent, which puts above the league of Presidents who were both complete failures and moral abysses (e.g. Buchanan, Andrew Johnson); but I just can't give an FF.
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