Andrew Jackson Foundation CEO says removal of portrait from Oval Office 'disappointing'

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--The President & CEO of the Andrew Jackson Foundation says the removal of an Andrew Jackson portrait from the Oval Office by President Joe Biden is "disappointing but not surprising." 

On Thursday, the Associated Press and other media outlets reported President Biden removed a portrait of the Tennessean who served as America's 7th president. Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 and his slave laborers have been a source of contention amid the national movement for social justice.

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