Lederer on Language: What’s in a president’s name? More than you might think
Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...
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A King? A Pawn? A Rogue? The Founders Could Barely Imagine a President.
How to design an inauguration that was not a coronation? How even to address the president? John Adams suggested “His Elective Majesty” or — having and eating his cake — “His Highness ...
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John Quincy Adams: Beginnings
After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...
Money & the Law: Long-ago decision reflects tensions between government's branches
Since we are now at a time when the power of the president, Congress and the courts are in tension and generating legal ...
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John Quincy Adams and the Corrupt Bargain of 1825
With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s ...