By Richard A. Baker
Integrated are 2 hundred tales, with over two hundred four-color illustrations, awarded in album-style to enlighten, motivate, amuse and inform. while learn jointly, the tales supply transparent impressions in regards to the forces, occasions, and personalities that experience formed the Senate of the twenty first century.
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Congress. Senate. Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789-1993, by Mark O. Hatfield, with the Senate Historical Office. , 1997. S. Doc. 104-6. 48 March 14, 1841 A Senate Leader Apologizes T hree major portraits of Henry Clay occupy prime space King answered ominously, “Mr. President, I have no reply in the Capitol. In each of them, the Kentucky states- to make—none whatever. But Mr. ” man wears the genial look of a man confident about King then wrote out a challenge to a duel and delivered it to his place in history.
John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina (1832-1843, 1845-1850), vice president of the United States (1825-1832). Further Reading Niven, John. John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. 42 January 26, 1830 The Most Famous Senate Speech W hen the debate started, it focused on the seemingly Daniel Webster rose to Hayne’s challenge. In a packed prosaic subjects of tariff and public land policy. ” In response to Hayne’s argument that the the nature of the federal Union.
Calhoun and the Price of Union. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. 42 January 26, 1830 The Most Famous Senate Speech W hen the debate started, it focused on the seemingly Daniel Webster rose to Hayne’s challenge. In a packed prosaic subjects of tariff and public land policy. ” In response to Hayne’s argument that the the nature of the federal Union. Observers then and since have nation was simply an association of sovereign states, from considered Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster’s closing ora- which individual states could tion, beginning on January 26, 1830, as the most famous speech withdraw at will, Webster in Senate history.