Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnsonwas the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. A Democrat who ran with Lincoln on the National Union ticket, Johnson came to office as the Civil War concluded. The new president favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union. His plans did not give protection to the former slaves, and he came into conflict with the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth29 December 1808
CityRaleigh, NC
CountryUnited States of America
Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored in the country upon an equality with the poor white man.
Everybody was probably thinking 'He shot 62, he can't do it again. Maybe that helped me today. But early on I was really, really nervous. The first drive felt like the head cover was still on the club.
The best thing about it is it's always changing. I'm ahead $50 and I got to play all day.
I've learned how to deal with some things (this year). I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.
We are certainly gratified by the Board of Supervisors' vote to accept the settlement agreement we proposed. We have said that this represents a true win-win for Comcast and the residents of San Francisco. And we believe the deal is exactly that.
We want to get it done as quickly and inexpensively with as much creativity and flexibility as we can have.
Everything started going in today. I've been sick all this week, coughing and hacking, and I started feeling a little better today.
The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose labor creates wealth and contributes to the public resources, are worth more to the United States than if they had been reserved as a solitude for future purchasers.
I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.
The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.
I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other confederacy until she has had time to consider; and then she will go when she believes it to be her interest, and not before.
Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.
I have performed my duty to my God, my country, and my family. I have nothing to fear in approaching death. To me it is the mere shadow of God's protecting wing . . . Here I will rest in quiet and peace beyond the reach of calumny's poisoned shaft, the influence of envy and jealous enemies, where treason and traitors or State backsliders and hypocrites in church can have no peace.