Wikipedia says today:
" Johnson succeeded to the Presidency upon Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865.
As president he took charge of Presidential Reconstruction – the first phase of Reconstruction – which lasted until the Radical Republicans gained control of Congress in the 1866 elections. His conciliatory policies towards the South, his hurry to reincorporate the former Confederates back into the union, and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with some Republicans. The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 while charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, a law enacted by Congress in March 1867 over Johnson's veto, but he was acquitted by a single vote in the Senate.
He is the most recent President to represent a party other than the Republican or Democratic parties, having represented both the Democrats and the National Union Party. He is consistently ranked by historians as being among the worst U.S. presidents."
Johnson, like Obama, was a Democrat. Lincoln was a Republican.
Republicans fought Democrat Johnson, because they wanted greater civil rights. Just as today Republicans fight Democrat Obama because they want greater civil rights and less government interference.
Democrat Johnson wanted quick reconciliation with our enemies, even those still militarized, just as Obama preaches reconciliation with our enemies today, our enemies ready and armed to strike us -- Hizbuallah, Al Qeda, Hamas, Iran. Republicans wanted then and now to see those enemies brought into a state of submission (anyone watch "Dog Whisperer"?) before we dealt with them.
Johnson was an alcoholic. Obama did have drug problems when he was young, and no one quite knows if they continue, for much of Obama's background and life is kept secret. Oh we know he loves his Direct TV on Air Force One so he can watch March Madness, and that he his get-down parties Wednesday nights. And we know he travels everywhere with teleprompter, but all else is keep secret. What for example, where his grades at Occidental where he admitted using drugs, and how different than those he got at Colombia -- all secret. How cool is that!
In any case Obama says he is a modern Abraham Lincoln, but is he more like Andrew Johnson? What do you think?
" Johnson succeeded to the Presidency upon Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865.
As president he took charge of Presidential Reconstruction – the first phase of Reconstruction – which lasted until the Radical Republicans gained control of Congress in the 1866 elections. His conciliatory policies towards the South, his hurry to reincorporate the former Confederates back into the union, and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with some Republicans. The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 while charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, a law enacted by Congress in March 1867 over Johnson's veto, but he was acquitted by a single vote in the Senate.
He is the most recent President to represent a party other than the Republican or Democratic parties, having represented both the Democrats and the National Union Party. He is consistently ranked by historians as being among the worst U.S. presidents."
Johnson, like Obama, was a Democrat. Lincoln was a Republican.
Republicans fought Democrat Johnson, because they wanted greater civil rights. Just as today Republicans fight Democrat Obama because they want greater civil rights and less government interference.
Democrat Johnson wanted quick reconciliation with our enemies, even those still militarized, just as Obama preaches reconciliation with our enemies today, our enemies ready and armed to strike us -- Hizbuallah, Al Qeda, Hamas, Iran. Republicans wanted then and now to see those enemies brought into a state of submission (anyone watch "Dog Whisperer"?) before we dealt with them.
Johnson was an alcoholic. Obama did have drug problems when he was young, and no one quite knows if they continue, for much of Obama's background and life is kept secret. Oh we know he loves his Direct TV on Air Force One so he can watch March Madness, and that he his get-down parties Wednesday nights. And we know he travels everywhere with teleprompter, but all else is keep secret. What for example, where his grades at Occidental where he admitted using drugs, and how different than those he got at Colombia -- all secret. How cool is that!
In any case Obama says he is a modern Abraham Lincoln, but is he more like Andrew Johnson? What do you think?