Answer: Kissinger served as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon!!
Explanation:
The the period of the second party system (mid 1824-1860)
I would go with Lavish Spending by the royal court.
Versailles had over 30 water fountains? Each were power by hand.
I know financing the American Revolution was expensive, and took several decades to pay back France.
America considers it paid particularly from WWI and WWII.
