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Andrew Johnson Continues His Attaq on Grant

Andrew Johnson Continues His Attaq on Grant

…to no effect: July 1869

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From the NY Evening Telegram (front page) 9 July 1869

Another post from the files that will NOT be in the book.

If there ever was a precursor to Obama on the inelegant side of the stage, it was Andrew Johnson—a man whose politics is more personal than party oriented, but who nevertheless was always a Democrat and more Copperhead than Unionist after Lincol…

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