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One observer estimated that Johnson lost one million Northern votes in this debacle. Having lost both congressional and popular support, Johnson was finished. Blocked at every turn, he felt he had no choice but to challenge the Tenure of Office Act as a blatant usurpation of presidential authority.
Johnson’s decision was not easy, because he was driven by deep political ambition, but he was greatly troubled by the divisions and turbulence in American society and by an increasingly unpopular war that was so closely tied to his administration.
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This success was not accidental: since he lost his bid for the governorship of California in 1968, Nixon had been collecting political credits by branding himself as a candidate who could appeal to mainstream voters and by tirelessly working for other Republican candidates.
Apr 12, 2019 · Many Radical Republicans had greeted Johnson’s ascent by assassination with optimism, thinking he would go along with their program for enfranchising formerly enslaved African-Americans and putting the former Confederacy through a reconstructive, even punitive shake-up.
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Apr 28, 2015 · Our investigation arrives at the clear conclusion that the riot in Baltimore must be attributed to two elements — “white racism” and economic oppression of the Negro. It is impossible to give...
Johnson's literature, especially his Lives of the Poets series, is marked by various opinions on what would make a poetic work excellent. He believed that the best poetry relied on contemporary language, and he disliked the use of decorative or purposefully archaic language.
Lecture 21. - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction. Overview. In this lecture, Professor Blight begins his engagement with Reconstruction. Reconstruction, Blight suggests, might best be understood as an extended referendum on the meaning of the Civil War.
