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Every President gets to choose the portraits that hang in the White House during his term. By now, too, every President is aware that his choices honor his heroes and hint at the direction he intends to follow. Those at the top of his list are put in the Oval Office, those next in line in the Cabinet Room. Barack Obama has put Lincoln in the Oval Office, a decision that surprised no one in what it said about how he views the historical moment embodied in his presidency. Nixon put Woodrow Wilson in the Cabinet Room, a choice that seems a bit odd at first blush—but then Nixon was a more complex man than our highly skewed historical redaction of him suggests. A decade later, Ronald Reagan put George Washington and Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office . . .http://www.the-american-interest.com/2010/05/01/reagans-muse/
I still don't like Jackson. The guy openly defied a completely valid order from the Supreme Court just because he didn't like the way they ruled, and he did it so that he push the Trail of Tears.
