Article 2G2WC Andrew Jackson Is a Poor Presidential Role Model

Andrew Jackson Is a Poor Presidential Role Model

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Donald Trump added a portrait of Andrew Jackson to the White House Oval Office shortly after his inauguration. Jackson's defeat of incumbent John Quincy Adams in the 1828 election was the first great US political upset in which an anti-establishment candidate defeated an insider, which no doubt pleases Trump given his own road to the Presidency, but does Jackson deserve to be remembered so fondly as the one who put power in the hands of the people?

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