`OLD KINDERHOOK': UNDERESTIMATED; Martin Van Buren, like George Bush, was something of a "resume candidate" and suffered the constant comparison to his popular predecessor

The Washington Post | January 20, 1989| | Copyright

They make an odd pair: George Bush and Martin Van Buren, the new president's political hero.

And if Bush, who has been extolling his "marvelous Van Buren transition," worries about his own reputation, he probably hopes the comparison ends shortly before noon today.

That's because many of the problems that dogged the eighth president started on March 4, 1837, the day Van Buren took office. It was a bright, sunny day, but the new president found himself completely overshadowed by Andrew Jackson, his popular predecessor.

As Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri remarked: "For once, the rising ...

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