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358: I WAS ALL BUSINESS IN FRONT WHEN I PARTIED IN BACK WITH PRESIDENT POLK

March 5, 2026March 5, 2026 Thomas WatsonLeave a reply

KISS may have rock and rolled all night and partied every day, but when I hung out with James K. Polk on our YouTube channel, it was business in the front and a party in the back – highlighted with…

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283: I’LL KEEP A-KNOCKIN’ ON POLK’S DOOR & SLIPPIN’ AND SLIDIN’ ON HIS FOUNTAIN

May 22, 2024November 7, 2024 Thomas Watson2 Comments

Following a 47-mile drive from Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage, Tom, Vicki, and I rolled into Columbia, Tennessee at roughly 1:45pm on April 19, 2024. It had been nearly ten years since I last visited the self-proclaimed ‘mule capital of the world’,…

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18: ROCKIN’ THE COUNTRY IN NASHVILLE

October 24, 2019October 4, 2024 Thomas Watson2 Comments

“Music City, U.S.A.” awaited me on July 8, 2014; I was up early and anxious to get into downtown Nashville.  I knew of five Presidential sites there and I believed that we could walk to each one of them with…

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17: JAMES K. WAS COLUMBIA’S ‘SPECIAL K’

October 23, 2019October 4, 2024 Thomas WatsonLeave a reply

The final Presidential stop of July 7, 2014 sent us south of Nashville for over 40 miles and into the heart of Columbia, Tennessee where we found the ancestral home of James K. Polk.  Even though we drove a long…

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