Shortly after being elected, he connived to get Texas –founded on territory seized from Mexico by rebellious American settlers – annexed as part of the U.S. in 1845, as a slave state. This was all enormously controversial, since Mexico deemed the U.S. annexation of Texas illegal and ...
When listening to his airchecks, you can hear the excitement that dominated the radio during this time, as one band after another made its way “across the pond: and to kids listening to AM radio stations in places like Chicago, Chattanooga, and Corpus Christi. TheBritish Invasionwas started ...