President #5, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #14 What’s So Bad About Feeling Good? James Monroe was the last of a series of three Virginia presidents, following Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. And, since he didn’t write the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, Monroe is remembered mainly for his eponymous foreign policy doctrine. And, some people [...]
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