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AN INTERESTING FAMILY.
   
Complete Explanation:
A caricature of Martin Van Buren as an opossum. The marsupial, with a smirking Van Buren's head, rises on its hindquarters and displays in its pouch three of its "young." They are administration insiders (left to right): Thomas Hart Benton, John C. Calhoun, and Washington "Globe" editor Francis Preston Blair.

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