Happiness Comparison Quotes
After Adams took the oath of office, he wrote to his wife Abigail about Washington's great satisfaction at leaving office:
Buchanan had a very difficult time in his Presidency. There was enormous pressure from the abolitionists to curtail slavery and there was equally passionate pressure from the slave owners to not only maintain slavery as an institution but expand it into the Western territories. Buchanan tried to continue what had been successful since 1787—appeasing the South and persuading the North to go along to maintain national unity. Except the nation was polarizing on the slavery issue and there was no way to “compromise” slavery any longer. Buchanan ended up alienating both sides. He left office and handed the “hot potato” to Lincoln.
