Jefferson and Monroe were governors, and I don’t know that the country would have been worse off without Adams,Taft, Hoover or Trump but I think you miss the point of a heuristic. The question is “what is sufficient background to qualify someone for POTUS”?
Louisiana Purchase did more long term good than the damage done by the idiotic Embargo Act.
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Louisiana Purchase was such an insane deal that popped out of nowhere that any moron would have taken it. Even so, Jefferson considered not taking it.
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I mean Jefferson literally came up with every objection as to why we shouldn’t do the Louisiana Purchase. Never has so much praised been heaped on man for only reluctantly doing something that the whole universe has declared a “no brainer.”
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