Admiring Andrew Jackson

By Kleinheider Posted on April 26, 2009 at 5:47 pm

Governor Phil Bredesen on a recent award presented him at the Hermitage:

“I’m very, very pleased by this, Andrew Jackson is a man I admire very, very much. He’s had different connections to my own life that I am going to talk about tonight. To have this first award given by the Hermitage means a lot to me and being able to share (the night) with Jon Meacham who won a Pulitizer prize this week for his work on Andrew Jackson is a great honor. He is a great writer. He’s an inspiration to me. You can actually have a real job and do other things. I’m very pleased. I have a copy of his book. I have had it signed by him. I’m not going to confessed to you that I have read it because I haven’t. My job gets in the way of things I would love to do.”

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