My wife is American [a Wolverine girl] and was woefully ignorant of European history when she first came over here to study.
I have just asked her about Jackson and her reply was ' the man who made the presidency the presidents'.
Buggered if I know what she meant as I am as woefully ignorant of US history as she is of European, apart from where it impinged on the Empire. The Cambridge University 'O' level history syllabus seemed to stop mentioning the US after 1776, almost as if in a fit of pique!
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