Whig leader Henry Clay expected Tyler to work closely with the Whigs (as Harrison would have done), but even that felt too much like manipulation to Tyler. Tyler vetoed most of Clay’s proposed legislation, hurting the Whig agenda and also running counter to how the Whigs believed a president should behave (their idea of the presidency involved vetoing as a rarity, and Tyler was immediately pretty veto-crazy). One by one, everyone in Tyler’s cabinet resigned out of protest, because he refused to listen to anyone who he thought was trying to influence or control him (which, according to Tyler,
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