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{{quote|''When the 1828 election rolled around, a lot of people were terrified when they heard Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson was running. If you're wondering how a guy we're calling a bad ass got such a lame nickname, it's because he used to carry a hickory cane around and beat people senseless with it, and if you're wondering why he did that, it's because he was a fucking lunatic.''
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* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Prior to being President, he got a reputation for this. He actually played it up at times to get his foes to underestimate him as President, such as when he made a bunch of saber rattling on the Nullification Crisis of 1832. He planned the whole time to actually go through with using military force if he had to, but quietly worked behind the scenes to make it not necessary.
** That said, he got attacked twice by people trying to assault or kill him during his Presidency. The first case, where someone tried to beat him up on a train, he didn't lose his cool because others got to the guy before he could get up and thrash the moron himself. The second time when he DID show he was still fire-blooded was when he nearly beat to death the man who tried to kill him with two pistols.
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: He would occasionally cough up blood due to the fact he had a bullet lodged very close to his heart that pooled blood into his lungs that he had to cough up on occasion. Irony abounds because while this sucked, he would have very likely died getting that bullet removed, and he knew it, so he decided to put up with occasionally coughing up blood.
* [[Immune to Bullets]]: How does a man get shot so many times and still live?
** During the attempt to assassinate him (the first-ever attempt on an American President), the would-be murderer pulled a pair of flintlock pistols at point-blank range. Both misfired. Perhaps the damp weather had something to do with it. Or [[Memetic Badass|perhaps the bullets were afraid of him.]]
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* [[Mugging the Monster]]: As mentioned above, an assassin who went after him found out that hard way how bad an idea that was, and Jackson's security was barely able to keep the President from killing the dope.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Creek Indians called Jackson "Sharp Knife".
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: President Action/Iron/and to the common man, President Personable.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them]]: He once famously said "John Marshall has made his ruling, now let him come to the White House and enforce it." This was in response to him enacting the Indian Removal Act, going over the head of John Marshall (then the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) who had declared that the Indians had rights to their own territory.
** [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: His rationale for his war with the Second Bank. He knew they might try to choke off the money they supplied to the rest of the US, but considered it worth risking a financial depression if he could break the Second Bank's power over the US first, as his own personal rule was to represent the common man, and he was convinced the Second Bank was working against them.
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