Whig Party members and Abolitionists in the North believed that slave-owners and southerners in Polk's administration had planned the war.
VOA: special.2009.02.26
He said it was the unity of this cabinet that made Polk's administration so successful.
VOA: special.2009.05.14
It was played at the inaugurations of Presidents Martin Van Buren in 1837 and John Tyler in 1841, according to historians, and during the administration of President James Polk from 1845 to 1849 it became routinely played any time the president entered a room during public occasions.