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On the recordDecember 5, 1832
In thus employing my best faculties to exercise the power with which I am invested to avoid evils and to effect the greatest attainable good for our common country I feel that I may trust to your cordial cooperation.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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