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The Words of Thomas Jefferson

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Newly inaugurated Gerald Ford pardons his predecessor Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

When you're teaching expansionism, Mexican American War, Oregon Territory, the administration of the 11th president of the USA, James K Polk, you might find (and your students will enjoy) this history song helpful in getting down in a fun way the main facts about this moment in American history. (With apologies to They Might be Giants)

Vice-Presidents of the United States: John Adams (1789-1797), Thomas Jefferson (1797-1801), Aaron Burr (1801-1805), George Clinton (1805-1812), Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814), Daniel D. Tompkins (1817-1825), John C. Calhoun (1825-1832), Martin Van Buren (1833-1837), Richard M. Johnson (1837-1841), John Tyler (1841), George Dallas (1845-1849), Millard Fillmore (1849-1850), William R. King (1853), John C. Breckinridge (1857-1861), Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865), Andrew Johnson (1865), Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873), Henry Wilson (1873-1875), William A. Wheeler (1877-1881), Chester A. Arthur (1881), Thomas A. Hendricks (1885), Levi P. Morton (1889-1893), Adlai E. Stevenson (1893-1897), Garret Hobart (1897-1899), Theodore Roosevelt (1901), Charles W. Fairbanks (1905-1909), James S. Sherman (1909-1912), Thomas R. Marshall (1913-1921), Calvin Coolidge (1921-1923), Charles G. Dawes (1925-1929), Charles Curtis (1929-1933), John N. Garner (1933-1941), Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945), Harry S. Truman (1945), Alben W. Berkley (1949-1953), Richard Nixon (1953-1961), Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-1963), Hubert Humphrey (1965-1969), Spiro Agnew (1969-1973), Gerald Ford (1973-1974), Nelson Rockefeller (1974-1977), Walter Mondale (1977-1981), George H. W. Bush (1981-1989), Dan Quayle (1989-1993), Al Gore (1993-2001), Dick Cheney (2001-(current)).