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Presidente dos Estados Unidos de 1865 a 1869
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“There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.”
“I have lived among Negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with Negroes, I am for it without Negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed, I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space.”
“I am a-goin' for to tell you here to-day; yes, I'm a-goin for to tell you all, that I'm a plebian! I glory in it; I am a plebian! The people — yes, the people of the United States have made me what I am; and I am a-goin' for to tell you here to-day — yes, to-day, in this place — that the people are everything.”
“I have had a son killed, a son-in-law die during the last battle of Nashville, another son has thrown himself away, a second son-in-law is in no better condition, I think I have had sorrow enough without having my bank account examined by a Committee of Congress.”
“Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests at least equally important and equally deserving the considerations of Congress.”
“Your President is now the Tribune of the people, and, thank God, I am, and intend to assert the power which the people have placed in me... Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.”
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Andrew Johnson foi o 17º presidente dos Estados Unidos, servindo de 1865 a 1869. O 16º vice-presidente, ele assumiu a presidência após o assassinato de Abraham Lincoln. Johnson foi um Democrata de Guerra que concorreu com Lincoln na chapa do Partido da União Nacional na eleição presidencial de 1864, assumindo o cargo quando a Guerra Civil Americana concluiu. Johnson favoreceu a rápida restauração dos estados secedidos à União sem proteção para as pessoas recém-libertadas que eram anteriormente escravizadas, bem como o perdão aos ex-confederados. Isso levou a conflitos com o Congresso dos EUA dominado pelo Partido Republicano, culminando em seu impeachment pela Câmara dos Representantes em 1868. Ele foi absolvido no Senado por um voto.