Henry Clay – The Great Compromiser, Part 4
As the election of 1844 approached, it seemed obvious to everyone that the candidates would be Henry Clay for the Whigs and former President...
Henry Clay – The Great Compromiser, Part 3
In 1832, Henry Clay made another try for the White House. He had succeeded John Quincy Adams as leader of the National Republican Party...
Henry Clay – The Great Compromiser, Part 2
Now in Congress, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Henry Clay joined with other young, newly elected members and became a War...
Henry Clay – The Great Compromiser, Part 1
Only two men in our entire history hold the distinction of losing three presidential elections (losing being defined here as losing in the Electoral...
Life After the White House, Part 6
Few Presidents have entered the office with more promise or left it with greater disappointment than Lyndon Johnson. Majority Leader of the Senate and...
Life After the White House, Part 5
Warren Harding, elected in 1920, died suddenly in 1923 and was followed in office by Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge proved to be a popular President...
Life After the White House, Part 4
With the assassination of President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt became President. Roosevelt’s retirement could hardly be called that. After leaving the White House in...
Life After the White House, Part 3
After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Vice President Andrew Johnson became President. Johnson tried to carry out Lincoln’s moderate Reconstruction plans, which brought him into...
Life After the White House, Part 2
After attending the inauguration of his handpicked successor, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson retired to his plantation home, The Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee. Ill...
Life After the White House, Part 1
We read a great deal about what a President does while he is in the White House, but very little is written about what...