James K. Polk won the presidency in 1845 on an explicitly expansionist ... “Manifest Destiny was meant as this notion that ...

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And where Washington and Lincoln had arrived at moments freighted with destiny ...

In the 1840s, expansionist President James K. Polk considered taking most of what ... NATO brought lasting peace to North America and Europe, outlasted the Soviet Union until it collapsed, then ...

But America is not a REIT ... with Representative Abraham Lincoln in the majority, charging President James K. Polk with “unnecessarily and unconstitutionally” starting the Mexican-American ...

In 1845, President James K. Polk embraced a similar vision for territorial expansion. He supported Texas annexation-then controlled by pro-slavery Anglo American settlers that had declared ...

He claimed it was America’s God-given right “to overspread ... This belief, adopted by President James K. Polk, dismissed the sovereignty of Mexico and Indigenous nations and treated their ...

President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion ... Russia had long been interested in the western coast of North America, and Czar Peter the Great sent explorer Vitus Bering ...

Carrie Underwood was honored to perform "America the Beautiful" at Donald ... not to have pets in the White House, with only James K. Polk and Andrew Johnson abstaining before then.

“There have been a few presidents, I think most famously James K. Polk, who simply decided one ... in an Oval Office address. “With America’s sons in the fields far away, with America ...

When he assumed office in 2016, he was the first in 100 years not to have pets in the White House, with only James K. Polk and Andrew ... From this moment on America’s decline is over.

“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World,” he wrote, “the United States of America feels that ... not since James K. Polk threatened war (“Fifty-four Forty ...