Donald Trump has a painting of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office, but as he tries to browbeat Denmark into coughing up Greenland, maybe he should add a portrait of a Jackson acolyte -- James K. Polk.If cold-eyed American expansionism is the theme, there are few better representatives than the 11th president.He added more than 1 million square miles to U.S. territory and extended t...
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