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President Donald J. Trump delivers the keynote at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum on Friday in Atlanta. Curtis Compton, ccompton@ajc.com

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President Donald J. Trump delivers the keynote at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum on Friday in Atlanta. Curtis Compton, ccompton@ajc.com
By Jim Galloway
May 1, 2017

That sigh you're about to hear comes from teachers of U.S. history across the continent.

Edward-Isaac Dovere, chief Washington correspondent for Politico.com, reports that this exchange below between President Donald Trump and Salena Zito – she's the writer who last year told us that people were taking Trump "seriously, but not literally" – will hit later today. The topic was Andrew Jackson:

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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