His challenger, Sen. John Fremont of California , the first-ever Republican presidential candidate, opposed the expansion of slavery. Instead, the country grew more divided. However, voters there ultimately rejected the document and Kansas entered the Union as a free state.
For more information see Tyler's Wikipedia entry , which contains such details as:. The last year of Tyler's presidency was marred by a freak accident that killed two of his Cabinet members.
Later, Tyler had the distinction of being the only former US president to side with the Confederacy during the Civil War. There was a man who could pick winners. And all of this thanks to William Henry Harrison not wearing a coat, or moving the inauguration inside as Ronald Reagan did when it got too cold. Richard Adams's blog US politics. University of Virginia Miller Center.
James Monroe: Impact and Legacy. Breadcrumb U. James Monroe Essays Life in Brief. Life Before the Presidency. Campaigns and Elections. Domestic Affairs. Foreign Affairs. Life After the Presidency. Some past presidents made a fetish of chaos in policy development, often resulting in proposals that had not been fully explored. But process is only a tool for getting from here to there—it is not a substitute for substance.
And good processes can produce conflicting, competing and confusing programs. When a president lacks an overriding design for what he wants government to do, his department chiefs are forced to prepare presidential options in a vacuum. Political executives and high level civil servants prefer to be loyal to a president.
When direction is not present, they will go into business for themselves. The Carter presidency cannot be described—as was sometimes true of past administrations—in terms of White House loyalists versus cabinet department disloyalists. Today neither White House staff nor cabinet officials have been given the predictive capacity that they must have to do their jobs properly.
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