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A new look at Old Hickory

Broadcast: Midmorning, 12/09/2008, 10:06 a.m.
Broadcast: Midmorning, 02/26/2009, 10:06 a.m.

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St. Paul, Minn. — Though his name doesn't always come up in discussions of great American presidents, Andrew Jackson changed the face of the presidency. A new biography delivers a portrait of this complex, contradictory, and larger than life figure.

Daniel Webster's speech in defense of the Union, Janury 27, 1830

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