DAY TWELVE: MAY 3, 2013 I bellied up with my cold pizza breakfast this morning and then went to Columbia, TN. Columbia is a town that has a dozen highways and none of them are marked. I had to just drive around until I found the James K. Polk Home and finally came up on it from the opposite direction than I planned. James Knox Polk Polk was our 11th President holding office between 1845 and 1849, and he did a damn fine job of running the country. He had an expansionist agenda and worked hard every day until he got the job done. He served only one term, but got everything done that he set out to do. What more can we ask of a President beyond hard work and diligent
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