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:Andrew Jackson was the first modern president, because he was the first one who asserted that the president was not merely a member of the government's symphony: he was its conductor.

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Jackson remained powerful in the Democratic Party in his retirement. In 1844 he switched his support from Van Buren to James K. Polk, and this enabled Polk to win the Democratic nomination for president and then win the general election also in order to become president. Jackson died a year later, in 1845.

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Jackson, perhaps more than anyone else, established the powerful tools of the modern presidency. These included vetoing bills of Congress to prevent them from becoming law (Jackson vetoed more bills than all the presidents before him ''combined''), removing people from office when he disagreed with them, and using executive orders to give his positions the power of law.<ref>http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0151440-0</ref>

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