Political Courage — Andrew Jackson

The battle between Jackson and the Bank of the United States

Andrew Jackson (public domain) and Nicholas Biddle (Encyclopædia Britannica)

President Andrew Jackson enters the room without knocking. His secretaries are busily working on a message Jackson intends to present to Congress. They are writing to Congress explaining Jackson’s basis for vetoing the Bank of the United States’ re-charter. Jon Meacham called this “one of the most…