The Raven and the Likes of Presidents

President Obama: “How long you think it’ll take before they see things my way?”

#NecroNixon: “My way?”

President Obama: “Okay, how about your way then?” 

#NecroNixon: “‘Nevermore!’ quoth the Raven. ‘Nevermore!’”

Compilation Copyright

October 30, 2014

John Rubens

[See, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (1845)]

Tyler’s claim to be president was not immediately accepted by opposition members of Congress such as John Quincy Adams, who felt that Tyler should be a caretaker under the title of “Acting President”, or remain Vice President in name.^[73] Among those who questioned Tyler’s authority was Clay, who had planned to be “the real power behind a fumbling throne” while Harrison was alive, and intended the same for Tyler.^[74] Clay saw Tyler as the “Vice-President” and his presidency a mere “regency“.^[74]

Portrait of John Tyler as President.

He delivered a de facto inaugural address on April 9 reasserting his fundamental tenets of Jeffersonian democracy and limited federal power. Tyler’s claim to be president was not immediately accepted by opposition members of Congress such as John Quincy Adams, who felt that Tyler should be a caretaker under the title of “Acting President”, or remain Vice President in name.^[73]

A firm believer in manifest destiny, President Tyler sought to strengthen and preserve the Union through territorial expansion, most notably the annexation of the independent Republic of Texas in his last days in office.

John Tyler Bio Courtesy of Wikipedia online October 31, 2014