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In a May 2017 interview, President Trump hypothesized that President Andrew Jackson (1829-37) could have prevented the Civil War if he had been President at the time the war broke out (1861), and Trump went on to wonder aloud why the issues leading up to the war could not have been worked out. Those comments led to renewed interest in a 2015 news item about an historically inaccurate Civil War monument put up on a Trump-owned golf course: On 2 May 2017, Golf Digest republished a 2015 article on this subject drawn largely from a New York Times article reporting that after Trump bought the Lowes Island golf course in Virginia in 2009, he installed a plaque commemorating a Civil War River of Blood slaughter on the banks of the Potomac River, a battle that historians said never took place: When the Times contacted Trump for a response, he was typically defensive while providing no useful information to back up what was stated on the Civil War plaque:
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