{"id":1746167,"date":"2022-11-21T03:32:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1746167"},"modified":"2022-11-21T03:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:32:29","slug":"how-integrity-and-restraint-made-cleveland-one-of-americas-greatest-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-integrity-and-restraint-made-cleveland-one-of-americas-greatest-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"How Integrity And Restraint Made Cleveland One Of America\u2019s Greatest Presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-integrity-and-restraint-made-cleveland-one-of-americas-greatest-presidents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1746167&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Most Americans today do not know much about Grover Cleveland. The fact that he was the only president to serve two discontinuous terms (1885\u201389 and 1893\u201397) has reduced him to an answer in trivia games. In this new biography of Cleveland, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/r.search.yahoo.com\/_ylt=AwrO8ShQT2lj.dwAWxVXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzIEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny\/RV=2\/RE=1667874768\/RO=10\/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.simonandschuster.com%2fbooks%2fA-Man-of-Iron%2fTroy-Senik%2f9781982140748\/RK=2\/RS=KmBUMJmv.ti3hTkWERXTrjOtQOU-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland<\/a>,\u201d author Troy Senik makes a persuasive argument that Cleveland was one of America\u2019s greatest presidents \u2014 and it\u2019s worth remembering and appreciating the traits that made him great.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland\u2019s life was a typical self-made American success story. He was born in a modest family in New Jersey and was the fifth of nine children. His father was a small-town minister and died of illness when Grover Cleveland was only 16 years old. After his father\u2019s death and his older brothers joined the U.S. military, Cleveland became the sole breadwinner for his large family. He forwent college and took on a series of jobs instead. Cleveland could have easily lived a troubled life as a poor and uneducated man. Fortunately, with the help of one of his wealthy acquaintances, Cleveland became a law clerk at a prominent law firm in one of the most prosperous cities in the United States: Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n<p>As Cleveland worked his way up in the law firm, he began to show interest in politics by joining the Democratic Party. His reputation of \u201cindomitable industry, unpretentious courage, and unswerving honesty\u201d quickly caught party elders\u2019 attention. Cleveland was not a natural politician. He was not a great orator, didn\u2019t like to speak in public, and hated to spend time campaigning. Yet he seemed to possess incredible political luck \u2014 moving from the mayor of Buffalo to the governor of New York and the president of the United States within three years. Author Senik attributed Cleveland\u2019s elevation \u201cfrom the obscurity of a Buffalo law office to the presidency of the United States on the basis of one principle: integrity.\u201d Cleveland\u2019s political career peaked at a time when the public was sick of the corruption of both political parties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland was a firm believer in a limited government and the U.S. Constitution and saw himself as a fiduciary. His entire political career was guided by one principle: \u201cGovernment exists to protect the welfare of the people\u00a0<em>as a whole<\/em>. And any preference government sows to one individual over another is to be regarded as per se suspicious.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a president, Cleveland was best known for issuing vetoes. In his first term, he issued 414 vetoes, \u201cmore than double the number of vetoes issued by\u00a0<em>all previous presidents combined.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>He never hesitated to veto legislation that he viewed as exceeding constitutional limits, even if these bills were supported by his party or popular with the general public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of his most famous vetoes was in 1887 against the Texas Seed Bill, which would appropriate $10,000 to allow the federal government to purchase seed grain and distribute it to Texas farmers who suffered from drought.\u00a0In his message explaining the veto,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new biography of Grover Cleveland, &#8216;A Man of Iron,&#8217; Troy Senik makes the case that Cleveland&#8217;s fealty to the Constitution in a turbulent era is sorely underappreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":1746170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}