Ted Widmer: Redeeming Martin Van Buren from ted says Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 23 min 96 sec
✓ Published: 31-Mar-2011

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Martin Van Buren, son of a tavern keeper, architect of the Democratic Party, the first U.S. president to be born after the founding of the United States, and the only president for whom English was a second language (he grew up speaking Dutch), is widely regarded as a failed president, but Ted Widmer, author of Martin Van Buren argues that the