Ah, the cult of personality.
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Originally Posted by fenrir1887
A lot of presidents make efforts to learn. Andrew Johnson on the other hand refused to and it is his own fault he got close to being removed as president. You don't try and go over Congress' head in an illegal manner.
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The Radical Republicans in Congress were defying the Constitution, and Andrew Johnson realized that. Unfortunately, he made the mistake of thinking that the Supreme Court would uphold the Constitution. Whoops. (And for those who say that Reconstruction was only dragged on so long because of Johnson, the Radicals had a sufficient majority to override pretty much every single one of his vetoes, and they passed most of their legislation. Therefore, the Radicals were at fault for their own terrible policies.)