michael henderson: yes.usan swain: and what's interesting about the campaign in so many ways, it was really a presage of modern campaigning and the fact that he and his surrogates were out on the stump as it were. and i read that as many as 800,000 more americans voted in that election than had in the previous. michael henderson: yes. susan swain: how did he do that and how did he thought of that idea of campaigning? michael henderson: well, a lot of it was the growing development of an actual national party that martin van buren had been working on in albany and had been working on with people in the south particularly in virginia. and this is also a period of great technological change. so, we have railroads and we have newspapers and we have all kinds of sort of new communication methods that are coming to bear as well as a much larger electorate. so, we have basically almost general white male suffrage in all of the states. so, there are more people voting, there's more interest in voting, and there's mo

first, michael henderson.n his past, he served as superintendent of the martin van buren historical segment. and pat brady is back at our table. she is a first lady's biographer and historian. her biography of rachel jackson -- michael henderson, help people understand the amount of change that andrew jackson brought to washington. michael: good heavens. jackson is the first westerner. we've had virginia presidents from the old south before that. jackson is completely different. the change is enormous. even though he is a planter, he is not of the old planter class of the south. nor was he a new englander. this is a westerner. he brings different values and the french ambitions to the white house. susan: even though he was a widow the president, the ghost of his former wife hung over the white house during his years there. why is that? pat: she was the woman of his life. he loved her. when she died just a few months before he was inaugurated, he was bereft. he spent all of his time thinking about her and her m

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