This week, in honor of the most patriotic of holidays, we present the first entry in the National Register of Historic Foxes (we mean, of course, National Compliment Your Mirror Day. Ha, gotcha! Though really, check out National Compliment Your Mirror Day - our new fave holiday for sure).President Jackson's record is regarded as complex by modern historians, and we urge you to pick up Jon Meacham's excellent recent biography, but this sure ain't the forum in which to get into it. (If you arrived here while frantically searching online for a term paper for your history class, however, stay, pour yourself a cocktail and pull up a velvet chaise.) We will only say that Jackson's legendary temper, touching devotion to his wife/alleged bigamy, tendency to duel at dawn, general crotchetiness and getoffmylawndom, and most of all that silvery mane render him an American Lion among foxes.
We could make a joke about wood and his nickname being "Old Hickory," but we're too classy for that. This week. Now go buy your mirror a drink. Happy Fourth of July!
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