My only issue was that the boundary with Mexico should have been more straighter. We should have annexed the entire Baja California peninsula and moved the existing boundary about 50 miles South of what it is today (keeping the Rio Grande as part of the Texas boundary though). This would have solved a lot of problems and we would have had a cool vacation spot.
Wm. F. Buckley’s on the worst president: “I can think of one or two in-between Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln when slavery was the big issue of the day and nothing got done.”
Polk was one of them-from the south. Where does he fit in?