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Re: Quick Quiz and no looking it up 

By: micro in POPE IV | Recommend this post (1)
Wed, 20 Jan 16 12:23 AM | 78 view(s)
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Good guess but Jefferson was the first President to make sure we had a balanced budget.

He also along with Madison and several others called themselves Republicans.

At his first inauguration, he actually WALKED to the place where the ceremony was to be because he did not want the taxpayers paying for him to ride in a luxurious coach when he could easily walk there.

Very interesting man with diametrically opposed ideals versus reality. He was fiercely against owning slaves, yet he had over a thousand, many of which he inherited from his father and his father in law. He set NONE of them free. Very strange...



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Re: Quick Quiz and no looking it up
By: Decomposed in POPE IV
Tue, 19 Jan 16 9:23 PM 		Msg. 02705 of 47202

micro: 

re: "Who was the first President to embody republican principles of small government?"

Okay, I'm not looking it up - so I'm probably wrong.

The only President who greatly reduced the size of government and paid off debt was Andrew JACKSON.

So that's my guess, though Jackson was long before the Republican party.

If we're limiting the list to Republican Presidents then my guess is TAFT.
 

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