martin van buren came here, james k. polk.so the house especially during the presidential years and in jackson's retirement years the house was filled with visitors all the time. if you were a dignitary coming to visit andrew jackson led saint 1838 after the presidency you would have come to the front door here because you are an important person so you would come to the front door and you would've been greeted by a short woman named hannah who is ahead of house slaves. he kind of rolled the roost and she would invite you to come in and then she would size you up and decide how important you were. clearly you are already important because you had come to the front door. but if you are very important and you didn't know general jackson you would've been escorted into the front parler and allowed to wait for him there. in the front parler he would have had laying out objects that would show you what an important man you are about to meet. jackson would let you wait in the front part along fc could absorb come you could have a se

little while and put on the back burner nationally and allow the creation and one of the reasons martin van buren, martin van buren in his new york and virginia allies in the wake of the missouri crisis that starts to put together will be now call the democratic party. they talk about a dozen alliance the planters of the south on the plane republicans of the north. they talk specifically about the whole idea. it's not have slavery become a national division but we could argue about tariffs and we could argue about natives. just not slavery and that becomes the next. it's like the democrats versus the whigs. those of whom have a non-northern and southern wing and if you have experienced a political battle it's not until the missouri compromise is repealed. maybe they don't realize quite what it is. that's when all breaks loose. >> i guess you could say the missouri crisis saved the union. it allowed slavery and allowed it to come into being and allowed 30 years of development. >> in some ways and your question predisposes the united states as this nation that was a single creation from the beginni

then of course we defeated martin van buren in november 1840. harrison, as you know died 32 days into his term. tyler became president the image on the right is a romanticized picture of this passing an elevation to presidency. harrison had declared his intention to serve only one term as president. tyler almost desperately wanted a second term. he did not make a claim he would only serve one term. after being banished spent much of his time trying to put himself in the position to secure election of his own right in 1844. most notably by pursuing and getting the annexation of texas. tyler became the first president to marry while in office on june 26, 1844 he married a new yorker 30 years younger julia gardner in a ceremony in new york city. on the rights of the slide is muslim i fear favorite characters the 1844 political campaign. ralph pennsylvania abner the six or $25000, $25000 as a presidential salary at the time. or you have tyler sing is not going to run for president anymore he's going to chase with the farmer calls the gardener's daug

sometimes falls in the lowest but usually lands somewhere in that third and the company of safe martin van burenaylor, herbert kruger, jimmy carter. but clearly many of these men i've just named at the visceral dispassion first-year malevolence, dishonesty, self-serving cunning bit is long hung around richard nixon. rick wilson sums it up says nixon is the modern exemplar of course at the heart of the judgment stands the sheer dishonesty, the illegality epitomized by the watergate break-in, the cover up running through any number of other episodes of richard nixon's long political career. and it speaks to his line of criticism. of course there's more to it than that. the anti- semitism, the racism that has been revealed on the recordings from the white house attest to a deeper kind of character problem that has fueled a lot of nixon disliked or perhaps hatred. there also seems to me a third piece of this. nixon's distinctly paranoid style of politics. in the anti- instincts he seems to have embodied. in public opinion was for nixon often a force to be held in checked or even bypassed in order to

usually he lands in that third court tile, with martin van buren or zachary taylor, herbert hoover. but clearly none of these names inspire the visceral passionate dislike or the sheer malevolence. and there is one quote, which comes from the political side of this and it sums it all up. it's the modern exemplar. of course at the heart of this, it's this dishonesty, epitomized by the watergate and cover-up. and richard nixon's long political career. the nixon cronies -- of course there is more to it than that. the antisemitism, the racism, that has been revealed. and a deeper kind of character problem that has fueled a lot liu. and then yay there is a third thing. there is a paranoid style of politics, an anti democratic instincts that he seems to have embodied. public opinion, was for nixon, often a force to be held in check or maybe even bypassing or to free himself and he wished. so my brazil story speak to some of this. this is something a little different about richard nixon. something that might ease the waters and the somewhat more complicated way. foreign policy, after all,