Bob Crawford
speaker
602 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jun
Bob Crawford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They didn't identify with John Quincy Adams.
He was from their father's generation.
And while that generation created the nation, formed the nation, fought for the nation, it was still your father's generation.
Every new generation wants to define the politics, the culture for themselves.
So these voters, these newly enfranchised voters, they identified more with this guy, Andrew Jackson, who was literally the same age as John Quincy Adams.
They're born in the same year.
Andrew Jackson lives through the American Revolution, but he has a very different American Revolution than what John Quincy Adams experienced.
Andrew Jackson was poor.
He lived in the Waxhalls, which was a border region between North and South Carolina.
His father dies when his mother is pregnant with him.
During the Revolution, he's smacked across the face and scarred by a British soldier.
Andrew Jackson was kind of like a messenger for a militia down there.
He loses, ultimately, by the end of the war, he loses his mother and two of his brothers.
He's an orphan.
He ends the war an orphan and gets a small inheritance, and he's wild, but he studies the law.
He moves west to Tennessee, and he makes a name for himself as a politician, but more importantly, as a property owner.
And so he becomes famous when he's the hero of the Battle of New Orleans that ends the War of 1812.
And he's the most beloved military figure since George Washington.
And so where it seemed like John Quincy Adams was going to have a coronation and elevate, be elevated to the office that his father once held, the presidency, Andrew Jackson comes out of nowhere and steals it.
from him, but he doesn't steal it from him as in winning an outright victory.
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