No, that isn’t an account of President Donald Trump’s first weeks in office. It is a description of Andrew Jackson’s first 40 days on the job, according to James Parton’s 1860 book ...

After all, Mead notes, Bannon may be gone, but as for the president, “He still has a portrait of Andrew Jackson hanging in the Oval Office.” For Washington’s political class, Mead provided ...

The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has returned to the wall of the Oval Office, put up in time to greet President Donald Trump as he entered for the first time as the 47th president.

Nearly two centuries ago, shortly after President Andrew Jackson took office in 1829, the two magnolia trees were planted to commemorate the president's late wife, Rachel — according to ...

The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has recently made a comeback in the Oval Office. "Old Hickory" -- Jackson's nickname -- has long been a favorite of President Donald Trump. Trump ...

who died before he took office in 1829, according to the National Park Service. “Folklore tells us that these two southern magnolia trees were planted by President Andrew Jackson with seeds ...

Why don’t they ever fix it while in office? Only one president in United States history ever managed to eliminate the national debt: Andrew Jackson. Though he has since earned more fame as a ...

The collections office at The Hermitage said in response ... about Poll's actions at Jackson's funeral." "The Papers of Andrew Jackson" also has a footnote under the 1827 account about Poll's ...

Jackson County voters will decide the fate of two Andrew Jackson statues ... Smith, who is in his first term in office, doesn’t support Jackson’s discriminatory actions, but he’s concerned ...

Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.