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(See front cover) Some U. S. Presidents, whose hunger for land shocked their more economical contemporaries, made heavy demands upon their Secretaries of the Treasury. That able Swiss-born Secretary, Albert Gallatin, had to provide the $15,000,000 Jefferson needed to buy the 1,000,000 sq. mi. of wilderness known as the Louisiana Purchase. That staunch Georgian, William H. Crawford, had to dig up $5,000,000 to pay off Spanish obligations when Monroe bought Florida. Hugh McCulloch had to scrape up $7,200,000 in gold from a greenback Treasury to...
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