Andrew Jackson

Celebrate Andrew Jackson's 250th Birthday. His Statue Isn't Going Anywhere

... which is related, but in some ways more cynical. This says you must connect the dots between the dismantlement of the Confederate monuments and Jackson or risk being exposed as illogical or, more likely, hypocritical. Of course, that doesn't work. No one is seriously talking about removing the Jackson monument, and there is nothing illogical or hypocritical about it. The statues of Lee, Beauregard and Davis are all celebrating their participation in the Confederacy, the 11 states that launched a rebellion against the Union in what became the Civil War. Yes, the war included issues of states rights and economics, but both of those were connected to the extension of slavery, which was tearing the Union apart. A fourth monument in question, one celebrating the "Battle of Liberty Place," is a straightforward memorial to white supremacy, and even the preservationists don't seem keen on defending it. Some argue that Lee was a man of great integrity and that Beauregard spent a good deal of his ...

Andrew Jackson's Legacy Touches Four Generations Of Nashville Family

... Bliss / The Tennessean). She does her part to ensure that the Hermitage remains preserved. And she now also preserves other memories, those of her family's connection to the place. Spradley remembers walking the Hermitage grounds as a girl, "driving out to the country and going to an old house." And, later, she recalls watching her own daughters run around the grass on trips with their grandmother. On one visit, her older two girls — then just ages 3 and 5 — crawled into an old excavation pit where china and other artifacts had been unearthed, furthering Jackson's story. "They let the kids get in the hole and scrape away," Spradley says with a laugh. "It was hands-on archaeology.". With the memories are family artifacts, including a sterling silver spoon with the face of Jackson on the front and her grandmother's initials, F. C. S, on the back. Spradley believes it was given to the young woman when she was presented at a Hermitage ball years ago. Spradley received the spoon as a gift from her mother decades later when she joined The Hermitage board. Perhaps one day Spradley will pass it down to her own ...

How To Celebrate President Andrew Jackson's 250th Birthday

... on Wednesday — March 15 is the seventh president’s birth date. But the festivities are starting a bit earlier. The week-long birthday celebration begins Saturday at The Hermitage. More details and ticket information is available __link__. Birthday & Brew Festival: 1-5 p.m. Enjoy live music, craft beer, food trucks and a variety of birthday cakes. Judges will pick their favorite cake from local entries. The winner will be served as the official cake of Andrew Jackson’s 250 th birthday. This ticketed event is ages 21 and up. Andrew Jackson’s 250 th Birthday Celebration: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. A full day of activities will mark Jackson’s birth date, March 15. Events include a wreath-laying on Jackson’s tomb, a Tennessee National Guard concert, book signing by Judge Andrew Jackson VI, hickory pole racing and chocolate sampling. Watch the new "Jackson" movie and tour the renovated theater. ...

Trump To Honor Andrew Jackson In Nashville

... of the Tennessee Historical Society, giving one of the reasons. In 1828, Andrew Jackson campaigned against the national elite, though he was a member of the elite himself. INSKEEP: You can tell that by his mansion in Nashville, with its columns on the huge front porch. Howard Kittell heads the Andrew Jackson Foundation, meaning he's the guy with the key to the door at The Hermitage. HOWARD KITTELL: Jackson was an outsider from the standpoint that he was the first Westerner to be elected president. INSKEEP: The first Westerner. Tennessee was part of the West in the early 1800 s. It was the frontier. MARTIN: Historians have mixed views about comparing Jackson and Trump. They note that Jackson was a war hero with decades of government experience before he ran. Trump had no government experience. INSKEEP: Being compared to Jackson is not always flattering, which is why the Obama administration made plans to move him to the back of the $20 bill. Before leaving The ...

Andrew Jackson’s Warnings For Donald Trump

... In the ensuing contention, invitations to parties, gossip and petty snubs took on the highest political significance. Imagine “The Real Housewives of DC” — except with the president of the United States intimately involved in every brawl. Secretary of State Martin Van Buren deftly worked the politics of the affair to become a favorite of Jackson and set himself up to get elected as his successor, while Vice President John Calhoun — whose wife, Floride, was a Peggy antagonist — fell from favor. Jackson and Trump share certain qualities that invited their respective blowups. There’s the moodiness. Jackson biographer Jon Meacham describes him at one point in the midst of the Eaton affair as “grumpy and wounded, sensitive and wary of conspiracy.” Surely, that captures Trump’s mood when he tweeted the wiretapping allegations Saturday morning. There’s the oppositional mindset. “Jackson believed,” Meacham writes, “the country was being controlled by a kind of congressional-financial-bureaucratic complex in which the needs and concerns of the unconnected were secondary to those who were on the inside.” This is a fair approximation of the “deep state” ...

Andrew Jackson Born To Scots-irish Immigrants, March 15, 1767

... the House and served briefly in the Senate. He won the presidency, on his second try, in 1828. In his first State of the Union message, Jackson proposed doing away with the Electoral College. Story Continued Below. When Jackson hired new officeholders, Sen. William Marcy of New York said, “To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.” Rotation in office then became known as the spoils system. Politics polarized around Jackson: The Democratic Republicans — later, simply known as the Democrats — adhered to the president, while the National Republicans, later known as the Whigs, opposed him. Sens. Henry Clay of Kentucky and Daniel Webster of Massachusetts claimed Jackson sought to usurp power from the lawmakers. Hostile cartoonists portrayed him as King Andrew I. Unlike previous presidents, Jackson aggressively used his veto powers to set federal policy. He swept away a challenge from Vice President ...

Trump Touts Gop Health Care Plan At Tenn. Rally

... of "confronting Iran's destabilizing regional activities" while continuing to enforce the Iran nuclear deal. Trump and the Saudi delegation also discussed their mutual commitment to fighting "Daesh" - the Trump administration using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group for the first time. 7:30 a.m. The journalist who received a copy of a portion of President Donald Trump's 2005 tax returns says Trump doesn't want the American people to know who "he's beholden to.". In an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday, journalist David Cay Johnston says it's possible that either Trump or someone close to him sent him two pages of Trump's tax return. Johnston, who says he received the documents by mail, unsolicited, revealed his findings Tuesday on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show.". He says it's possible that he ...

Trump Likely To Revisit Andrew Jackson Legacy In Nashville

... of Greta Riles didn’t report her missing for two decades because of her lifestyle.  Investigators say Riles had a criminal history. In 1992, a hunter found a human skull and bones on the north edge of Tulsa. The remains were later sent to the University of North Texas for a DNA analysis. Deputies are still searching for the cause of death. Midtown shopping center to look bare as Sears, Gordmans close Tulsa stores. Sears announced a few months ago that the store at 21 st and Yale will close. The liquidation sale continues there as the store is expected to close in April. Gordman’s has now announced it is closing all of its stores nationwide. No word on when the Tulsa location will close. The absence of the two retailers will leave a large section of the Centennial Plaza shopping center empty. Other large retailers have also announced closures. Macy’s plans to close the store at Tulsa’s Promenade Mall. JC Penny and Staples plan to close stores as well, but the companies haven’t released a list of locations. Top intelligence lawmakers: no evidence of wiretap at Trump Tower. The top ...

Trump Cites Andrew Jackson As His Hero

... since taking office. View Photos. The beginning of his term has featured controversial executive orders and frequent conflicts with the media. The beginning of his term has featured controversial executive orders and frequent conflicts with the media. March 15, 2017 President Trump, left, takes a tour of the Hermitage, the home of President Andrew Jackson, to commemorate Jackson's 250 th birthday in Nashville. Evan Vucci/AP. Buy Photo. Wait 1 second to continue. By Jenna Johnson and Karen Tumulty By Jenna Johnson and Karen Tumulty March 15 at 7:36 PM Follow @wpjenna Follow @ktumulty. NASHVILLE — Others may think of history as a lens. Donald Trump regards it as a mirror. On Wednesday, he traveled to Tennessee to commemorate the 250 th birthday of the seventh president, Andrew Jackson, and toured Jackson’s plantation, which is known as the Hermitage. “Inspirational visit, I have to tell you. I’m a fan,” Trump said outside Old Hickory’s Greek Revival-style mansion. What apparently has struck the president most about his illustrious predecessor is how much he and Old Hickory have in common. “They say my election was most similar to his,” Trump said during an appearance in ...

Was Andrew Jackson Really A States' Rights Champion

... on his fame as a war hero and a renegade. But in the case of the Nullification Crisis, he showed himself to be as Big Government as they get. Matthew S. Brogdon reminds us of the crisis:  South Carolina, its slave plantation elites suffering under the national tariff, declared it could nullify that federal tax (and other federal laws). Jackson begged to differ. His Nullification Proclamation of 1832, written by Secretary of State Edward Livingston, declared nullification to be unconstitutional. The federal courts were the only route for redress by aggrieved states. And Jackson backed his unionism up with the Force Act, in which Congress authorized military action against any state that resisted the tariff. It was the first great blow against the defenders of slavery. In defending the Constitution, Jackson called it “a sovereign act of the people collectively.”. Eventually, South Carolina and the federal government compromised. But the state of the Union—out of many disputatious power centers, one overarching one—remained shaky. It shattered in the next generation over the question of the right of states ...