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The Origin of OK as a positive response has many versions.
During the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 General Andrew Jackson
asked Pushmantaha, leader of some 500 Choctaws, "How are
our warriors doing against the British?"
Panel 2: Jackson started using the term. He became our seventh
president, serving from 1829 to 1837. Jackson: "My Vice-President
John C. Calhoun resigned. That's OK with me."
"Okeh." Meaning "It is so"
Panel 3: "OK" first appeared in print in the Boston
Morning Post of March 23, 1893. Its editor Charles Gordon
Greene explained, "It's a variation on an incorrectly spelled
slang term Oll Korrect.
Panel 4: Our eighth president Martin Van Buren ran for
reelection in 1840 against....
Panel 5: General William Henry
Harrison who sported the nickname Tippicanoe, after his
famous victory in the War of 1812.
Panel 6: Van Buren's campaign managers: "He needs a catchy
nickname.
"A lot of ads use Old suchas Old Glory."
"President Van Buren hails from Kinderhook, New York."
"That's it. How 'bout Old Kinderhook.."
Panel 7: Overnight, Democratic
OK (Old Kinderhook) Clubs sprang up across the country. Van Buren's
supporters work "OK" badges.
Panel 8: Unfortunately for Van Buren the voters OK'd Harrison
for Prez.
Panel 8 footnote: OK Lives on
as a slang expression for something good in many languages.
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The
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by Wm. A. DeGregorio
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William Howard Taft and the First Motoring
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Here is an off-beat look at the oft-maligned presidency of William
Howard Taft which focuses primarily on his cars and the role
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provide information on the White House garage and stable, Taft's
speech to the Automobile Club of America, and a glossary. Unlike
his predecessors, who made public their disdain for cars, Taft
saw the automobile as a great source of wealth for the country.
The first president to acquire a car in office (actually Congress
granted him three), Taft put a garage at the White House in 1909.
7" x 10" 439 pages, index, illustrated, paperbound
ISBN 0-7864-2952-6
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A Cartoon of the
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DC Neighborhoods Flashbacks
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