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America’s Civil War: March 1997 From the EditorArchives | one comment | Print This Post | Email This Post James Buchanan, true to form, involved himself less in the Civil War than any of his fellow ex-presidents. His administration’s failure to reach a middle ground between extremists in both the North and the South had contributed greatly to the advent of the war one month after he left office, but Buchanan characteristically took vacillating positions on the issue during the war itself. He spent most of his time writing a defense of his actions–or inactions–in the years immediately preceding the war, a war that Lincoln’s postmaster general, Montgomery Blair, said, with some justice, Buchanan’s policies had “rendered inevitable.” Roy Morris, Jr., Editor, America’s Civil War Subscribe Today
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One Comment to “America’s Civil War: March 1997 From the Editor”
“Van Buren, the oldest living ex-president…”
Really?
Amazing that he is still alive. Must have tortoise genes.
By John Adams on Dec 8, 2008 at 10:27 am