Jeremi Suri
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329 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2023
last heard 7 Sep
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You could argue that our real combat operations go back to John F. Kennedy in some ways.
So,
You know, he gets put in the top 10, and I'm not saying he was a horrible president.
He was certainly better than some of the worst.
But he was probably middling.
But yet, because of the oratory, because of the image, and because he died young, and we always remember him young, he gets overrated.
Some people rate Polk pretty highly, as you know, in a lot of these surveys, and that's because they say he acquired these not insignificant territories.
right.
Mexico, Arizona, parts of California, right?
I mean, so, yeah.
Not to push back on Freddie too much, because I don't think Polk was a great president, but some of the things that were admirable about him, even though he was horrible in the ways that we just discussed.
He served only one term, which was his promise to only serve one term.
And when pressured by the most belligerent groups to take all of Mexico, he refused.
Right.
He actually had limited war aims.
He was not a conqueror.
He was someone who wanted particular lands that didn't belong to the United States.
And so he should be criticized for that.
But nonetheless, he saw certain limitations in power.
like our
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