All this had happened in the few weeks before Buchanan became President.

所有这一切都只发生在布肯南就任前的几个星期里。

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President Buchanan had promised the people of Kansas that they would have a fair chance to vote on their constitution.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

The attorney general and the secretary of state threatened to resign if President Buchanan gave in to South Carolina's demands.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

A few lawmakers hoped President Buchanan, in his yearly message to Congress, might propose a compromise.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

In 1858, a telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.

CNN: Friday,

The position hasn't been such a good career move since the 1850s, when James Buchanan became possibly the least successful president ever.

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At the time, Buchanan was White House communications director for President Reagan.

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