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Article: Jackson's Allegiance Wasn't Always to U.S.
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 9, 1995
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A president of the United States with split loyalties?
On the fringes of American politics, it's one of the
longer-running conspiracy theories.
Bill Clinton has been criticized as a Soviet dupe. George Bush's
association with the Trilateral Commission and John F. Kennedy's ties
to the Vatican have been called into question by the conspiracy
theorists.
As it turns out, there was at least one president who pledged
allegiance to another country.
Robert V. Remini, a professor emeritus of history at the
University of Illinois at Chicago and a winner of the National Book
Award for his biography of Andrew Jackson, said Monday that Jackson
signed an oath of loyalty to the King of Spain. "I ...