[Magdalen] Andrew Jackson joins Frederick Douglass.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

...well, obviously, if Andrew Jackson had lived a 'little longer' he could 
have been president a 'little later'... Come on Mike <GDR>

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From: "M J _Mike_ Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2017 11:21 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] Andrew Jackson joins Frederick Douglass.

> [Excerpted]
>
> Trump makes puzzling claim about Andrew Jackson, Civil War
> By JONATHAN LEMIRE
> From Associated Press
> May 01, 2017 10:57 AM EST
>
> NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump made puzzling claims about Andrew 
> Jackson and the Civil War in an interview, suggesting he was uncertain 
> about the origin of the conflict while claiming that Jackson was upset 
> about a war that started 16 years after his death.
>
> Trump, who has at times shown a shaky grasp of U.S. history, said he 
> wonders why issues "could not have been worked out" in order to prevent 
> the secession of 11 Southern states and a war that lasted four years and 
> killed more than 600,000 soldiers.
>
> "People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, 
> why?" Trump said in an interview with The Washington Examiner, according 
> to a transcript released Monday.  "People don't ask that question, but why 
> was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?"
>
> Trump ruminated after lauding Jackson, the populist president whom he and 
> his staff have cited as a role model.  He suggested that if Jackson had 
> been president "a little later, you wouldn't have had the Civil War."
>
> "He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the 
> Civil War.  He said, 'There's no reason for this,'" Trump continued.
>
> But Jackson died in 1845, and the Civil War didn't begin until 16 years 
> later, in 1861.