Episode #145: James Buchanan #5: Off to Europe, While Kansas Bleeds (1849-1856)

James Buchanan #5: Off to Europe, While Kansas Bleeds (1849-1856); Topics covered include: Out of office, country squire at Wheatland, family patriarch, Compromise of 1850, election of 1852, Minister to Great Britain, death of William King, Ostend Manifesto, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Bleeding Kansas

Key people: Esther Parker (Miss Hetty), Harriet Lane, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Lewis Cass, Stephen Douglas, Franklin Pierce, William Marcy, William King, Queen Victoria, Pierre Soule, and John Mason

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