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Message:: [QUOTE="Stevearino, post: 4445174, member: 74571"][USER=100459]@Jim Dale[/USER], I think you missed the point.  Without trying to engage you with respect to your very political post, my point is not that Jackson was fallible and other presidents were/are not.  My point was simply the irony of having a "Peace and Friendship" image on Jackson's medal, clearly aimed at Native Americans because of the hatchet and peace pipe, when his administration was responsible for atrocities against the Native American people. I did not advocate, e.g., that Jackson should not have a silver presidential medal coined.  Nor that the reverse should be blank; I advocated that his positive accomplishments be on the reverse.  But "peace and friendship" relative to Native Americans?  That is worthy of 1984 or Animal Farm. Steve[/QUOTE]