zachary taylor was a man. who had never voted? he was a general soldier. and a good one. and in good man and i would argue in some ways between jackson and lincoln. he was probably the most courageous of american presidents anna president at what years aging 1849 1850. he had a very short presidency died in the summer of 1850. and that gets complicated because here's where the nuance comes in. i admire zachary taylor for his courage in making it very clear that even though he was a southern slave owner. he would not hesitate jackson like to march into the south with as many troops as it took. to put down any attempt at breaking up the union. that's gutsy. that's brave now then the question becomes is it politically wise? taylor opposed or made it pretty clear that he opposed. what basically, what we know is the missouri compromise. taylor wanted for example to bring california. parental into the union is a free state. taylor was despite being a slaveholder. a pretty quickly disillusioned his southern supporters with the the degree of loyalty. he showed not only did the un

zachary taylor was a man. who had never voted? he was a general soldier. and a good one. and in good man and i would argue in some ways between jackson and lincoln. he was probably the most courageous of american presidents anna president at what years aging 1849 1850. he had a very short presidency died in the summer of 1850. and that gets complicated because here's where the nuance comes in. i admire zachary taylor for his courage in making it very clear that even though he was a southern slave owner. he would not hesitate jackson like to march into the south with as many troops as it took. to put down any attempt at breaking up the union. that's gutsy. that's brave now then the question becomes is it politically wise? taylor opposed or made it pretty clear that he opposed. what basically, what we know is the missouri compromise. taylor wanted for example to bring california. parental into the union is a free state. taylor was despite being a slaveholder. a pretty quickly disillusioned his southern supporters with the the degree of loyalty. he showed not only did the un

millard filmore, who became president when zachary taylor died, lost the whig party nomination in 1852d ran four yearlater as the candidate of the nativist american party, better known as the "know nothing party." he got 20% of the vote. ulysses grant honored the two- term tradition by not running in 1876, but four years later made a strongid to win the republican nomination. he fell just short after a 36 ballot marathon. just after his landslide election to a full term in 1904, theodore roosevelt announced he would not run again in four years. while he enthusiastically supported his successor, william howard taft, he came to regret his decision. by 1912 he sought to take the republican nomination away from taft. when he lost that fight, he ran as a progressive bull moose candidate, winning 27% of the vote and 88 electoral votes. his second place finish stands as the best third party result ever. and in 1980, gerald ford made it clear that he was interested in avenging his narrow 1976 loss, arguing that ronald reagan was too conservative to win. that didn't stop him from seriously cons

. >> fun fact, zac efron not name after zachary taylor. not. know people thought i was going to say what yes, but that's why hear. >> amazing. >> what about the fact that he also believes like trump that these elections are corrupt. >> they're is so much he said during that thing that i was just imagining trump being up there and saying something similar and the meltdowns that would be occurring in real-time. jim acosta would have set himself on fire during that if trump would've said in advance of the 2018 midterms, yeah, they're probably not going to b legitimate. literally he would've set himself on fire. to the point about he talked fo two hours or whatever, he did that because he thought it was actually going to show the people who were questioning the bill, he thought this was going to be something good, what he didn't understand that every second he went on, it got worse and worse and worse. >> it's like the batteries were powering down. >> it looked like he came out there and it just started drifting off in the answers started getting w