Word: buren
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...with the sun, sea and wildlife of Long Island and the muddy streets and busy docks of Brooklyn. Whitman the urbanite was a printer, newsp perman, editor, publisher, teacher, building contractor and real estate speculator. In 1840 this solitary singer even stumped for the election of Martin Van Buren...
Where Van Buren's vice president had so little to do he left Washington for a summer to run an inn, Lyndon B. Johnson headed the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities and the Aeronautics and Space Council under Kennedy. Harry Truman did not even know about the existence of an atomic bomb when he became president, but Nixon was allowed to preside over the National Security Council when President Eisenhower was absent...
...interest rate to 20%, the ninth increase in the prime since the first of the year. The latest rise pushed the country's basic price for business borrowing money to its highest level in 141 years. The alltime record holder: 36% interest in 1839 during the Martin Van Buren Administration, when overextended land speculators and merchants set off financial panic, one-quarter of the young nation's banks failed, and a deep depression helped kill Van Buren's hope for a second term...