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Warren G. Harding called the presidency “a hell of a job,” and James K. Polk considered himself “the hardest-working man in this country.” Thomas Jefferson—just the third person to hold the office—considered it a “splended misery.” The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden, a permanent exhibition that opened in November 2000, celebrates the continuity and the challenges of this unique American institution. Nine hundred objects chosen from the Museum’s political history collection—the largest of its kind—tell the complex story of the nation's highest office.
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