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Charles Wukasch's avatar

A bit of trivia: Van Buren was also the only president who spoke English as his second language. He was born into a Dutch-speaking family and learned English only after going to school. Of course, that may be linguistic folklore. Anyone out there know for sure?

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DENNIS B MURPHY's avatar

The jefferson jackson dinners are now largely called legacy dinners

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