[Magdalen] Andrew Jackson joins Frederick Douglass.

[Jay Weigel]

He's not even sundowning anymore, he is just OUT THERE.

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Eeeeeeeeesh!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
> On 5/1/2017 12:21 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>
>> [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.
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