[LS]

You present an admission that he drafted the bill, then voted against it. Mr. Kerry, meet Mr. Calhoun.

Kerry had fine reasons too for explaining away an inconvenient fact.

[PeaRidge]

I stated no such thing.

Clay authored the bill.

(from Wiki...again): "In an elaborate scheme to prevent passage of still higher tariffs, while at the same time appealing to Andrew Jackson’s supporters in the North, John C. Calhoun and other southerners joined them in crafting a tariff bill that would also weigh heavily on materials imported by the New England states.

"It was believed that President John Quincy Adams’s supporters in New England, the National Republicans, or as they would later be called, Whigs, would uniformly oppose the bill for this reason and that the southern legislators could then withdraw their support, killing the legislation while blaming Adams.