I should be clear, Martin Van Buren didn’t want to be a good president, he just wanted to be president, and enjoy himself while doing it. He wanted the attention, he wanted the power, he wanted the status, and that was it. There was only one issue about which he was passionate, and that was his stance on slavery (pro!). In his inaugural address, Van Buren said, “I must go into the Presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia,” an appropriate prelude to the presidency of shittiness that
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President Martin Van Buren. Sounds like a president I know!
