1835 — ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST US PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
Three years earlier, Jackson called for an end to the Second
National Bank of the United States by calling on Congress not to
renew its charter. He vetoed a bill to renew the bank’s charter,
saying the bank was guilty of fraud, corruption, controlling the
money supply (expanding and contracting the supply of money to
economically and politically benefit the bank) and because
“beyond question...this great and powerful institution had been
actively engaged in attempting to influence the elections of the
public officers by means of its money.” Jackson ordered the US
government to move its money out of the Second Bank. In
response, the bank called in all its loans and ceased issuing
new loans. An economic panic followed. In 1835, Richard Lawrence
fired 2 guns at Jackson but both misfired. He claimed his
assassination attempt was because, in part, "money would be more
plenty.” 1882 — BIRTH OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT "[T]he
real truth is…that