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Essay on The Presidencies of Andrew Jackson and William J. Clinton
As times transform the government have got to change. We need a new government for a new century--humble enough not to try to solve all our problems for us, but strong enough to give us the tools to solve our problems for ourselves; a government that is smaller, lives within its means, and does more with less. Yet where it can stand up for our values and interests in the world, and where it can give Americans the power to make a real difference in their everyday lives, government should do more, not less. The finest mission of our new government is to give all Americans an opportunity not a guarantee, but a real opportunity to build better lives.
Andrew Jackson, was the foremost governor of Florida (1821), seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), hero of the Battle of New Orleans (1815), an originator of the Democratic Party, and the eponym of the era of Jacksonian democratic state. He was a polarizing figure who helped shape the Second Party System of American politics in the 1820s and 1830s. Nicknamed "Old Hickory," Jackson was the first President primarily associated with the American frontier (although born in South Carolina, he spent most of his life in Tennessee).
Jackson was born in a backwoods settlement to Scots-Irish immigrants in the Waxhaw area in the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. He was the youngest of three brothers. Both North Carolina and South Carolina have claimed him as a "native son." Jackson himself always stated that he was born in South Carolina. He received a sporadic education. At age thirteen, he joined the Continental Army as a courier. He was captured and imprisoned by the British during the American Revolutionary War. Jackson was the last U.S. President to have been a veteran of the American Revolution, and the only President to have been a prisoner of war......
