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‘I Need Your Painting, Mike’: Speaker Johnson Claims Trump ’Shook Him Down’ For Portrait Of President James Polk
House Speaker Mike Johnson detailed how President Donald Trump shook him down for a portrait of President James Polk during a ...
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Portrait Recently Added to Trump's Oval Office Could Have a Much Deeper Meaning Than It Appears
President James K. Polk has returned ... else who had expanded America: Polk, according to the Wall Street Journal. In February, Trump swapped a White House portrait of Thomas Jefferson for ...
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The Mexican American War
Print shows a scene from the Battle of Monterrey ... Library of Congress. In 1844, President James K. Polk ran on a Democratic platform that supported manifest destiny, the idea that Americans ...