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One of Buchanan's eyelids twitched, which, combined with his personality (in 1825, at least)
led a modern Jackson biographer to describe Buchanan as a "winking, fidgeting little busybody"
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Remini
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describes Buchanan's role in the events surrounding the farcical election
of 1824, in which Henry Clay threw his support behind Monroe's secretary of
state, John Quincy Adams, enabling Adams to
steal the presidential election from Andrew Jackson in the House of
Representatives:
It is unclear to me why Remini focuses on Buchanan's blinks as he does. It may be because Clay had, in fact, never authorized anyone to approach Buchanan, nor had he proposed a deal of the type Buchanan outlined. |
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a p.153 b p.152-153
Comment: Well-written, coherent distillation of Remini's definitive three-volume biography of Jackson.
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