Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician with his eye on Greenland
President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s elegy for precedent | Wall Street Journal
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, appearing recently at the University of Louisville’s law school, was asked about eroding confidence ...
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The curious momentum behind Trump’s quest for Greenland
William Seward, the U.S. secretary of state who purchased Alaska in 1867, was close to a similar deal for Greenland, but was foiled by political rivals in Congress. With both northern territories ...
City Journal7d
Trump Is Right About Greenland
In the 1860s, Secretary of State William Seward commissioned a report that contemplated purchasing ... such an arrangement would need to be negotiated between Nuuk and Washington and ratified by ...
Washington Examiner29d
What happened the previous three times the US attempted to acquire Greenland
In 1867, he came to Secretary of State William Seward with ... Caribbean possessions. With Congress unwilling to go ahead with purchasing the Danish West Indies, Seward and Walker saw the writing ...
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Charleston has welcomed many sitting U.S. presidents through the years. Here’s a look back at some of those visits
(Library of Congress) President William Howard Taft and his wife, Nellie, visited Charleston on several occasions to stay at the home of his friend, then-Mayor R. Goodwynn Rhett. During a visit in ...
Cardinal News10d
The last time the U.S. bought territory from Denmark, two Virginians were involved
No, this is not about Donald Trump and Greenland, although it does deal with the last time the United States bought territory ...
New Jersey Globe7d
How John Kean cut a deal for a no-bid contract with Lincoln
He was the grandson of John Kean, who served in the Continental Congress ... William Dayton receiving 14 votes from New Jersey GOP delegates on the first ballot. Kean was supposed to deliver New ...