Comments Posted By Bill McIntosh
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RIGHT OR WRONG, BUSH MADE AN IMPACT
"Pierce’s greatest success was in swindling Mexico out of a couple of million acres of land for $10 million. The Gadsen Purchase was ostensibly to be used for part of the transcontinental railroad."
If you check into the history a bit more you will see that our Southern border with Mexico (west of El Paso) needed better definition. This being the case the Gadsden Purchase marked a closing point to the Mexican American War. Let's give him and members of Congress some recognition for that.
You are correct. I was just dumping on Pierce because everyone else does.
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Comment Posted By Bill McIntosh On 15.01.2009 @ 18:24
