stackyFACTSYou would assume a massive autobiography covering an entire political career might dedicate a footnote to a life partner. Not Van Buren. He wrote hundreds of pages about his own brilliance but entirely omitted his wife, Hannah, proving that political ego truly knows no bounds.
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