Gold Spoon Oration
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Gold Spoon Oration
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The Gold Spoon Oration, also called "The Regal Splendor of the President's Palace," was a political speech given in the US House of Representatives by Charles Ogle (Whig-PA) on April 14–16, 1840. The speech reviled then-President Martin Van Buren for his supposedly luxurious lifestyle in the White House, while idealizing Whig presidential candidate William Henry Harrison as a homespun man of the people; compare the idiom "silver spoon". Shortly after delivering the speech, Ogle had tens of thous
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1840 political speech by Charles Ogle
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