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...validly be made among the remaining creditable Presidencies. Their careers group themselves with the many patriots who have served their country well, but who by no means could be said to have dominated their times. They are John Adams, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Johnson, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Coolidge, and Hoover...
...Webster: "A defamatory falsehood published for political effect." The word was coined after "excerpts" from a non-existent Travels of Baron Roorback were published in 1844 to discredit James K. Polk...
...Camp Polk...
...President James Knox Polk, 1818; Bandmaster James Kern ("Kay") Kyser, '28; Author Thomas Wolfe, '20 (the University is the "Old Catawba" of his Look Homeward Angel); Statesman Josephus Daniels, '85; Journalist Jonathan Worth Daniels...
There is a chance, however, that Sam Rayburn may be asked to desert his love, as has many another strong Speaker before him. Polk was the only Speaker who advanced to the Presidency, but Clay, Elaine, Reed, Champ Clark, Jack Garner and others had Presidential or Vice Presidential ambitions. It so happens that by 1944 the South's Sam Rayburn, a solid, middle-of-the-roader, a man who can placate Congress, may be just the kind of running mate Franklin Roosevelt desires. In that case, Term IV may be Sam's first -in a different...