Andrew Johnson: The impeached president

[@SiVlog1989]

Is it me or does every picture of Andrew Johnson depict him as looking particularly miserable

[@billycampbell769]

sbaker190189 ya its u.

[@marcomendex8780]

sbaker190189 Maybe cuz he was miserable in his life.....

[@sean2015]

He bears a striking resemblance to Tommy Lee Jones

[@ALANRLEAKE]

Based on his upbringing in his younger days plus the Civil War era shaping the political scene when he was President, every known photo of Johnson as President shows him " weaned on a pickle".

[@redbug3485]

That Is his Happy face!

[@ghostiegoober108]

“Fillmore’s lips were on that tea cup.” That is the funniest thing I’ll hear all day.

[@Unbrickme]

the historian is crazy lol

[@leftlanetankeryanker8596]

@@karlk9316 bruh your crazy

[@HypervoxelRBX]

Reece A and fake news

[@Eric_1991]

“BECAUSE HE WAS GAY?!” 😂

[@mosesmang1488]

@@Eric_1991 fredick

[@keerthichandra376]

I'm not an American, I'm not black but whenever I see Abe Lincoln's portrait or picture, I feel the urge to hug him and say thank you. He did not deserve the kind of end he got. I don't think anyone else can leave a legacy like he did 🙏

[@suprememate9818]

But I am happy we were freed because I wouldn’t be here😂😂

[@valeriebaptista1181]

That's the beauty about history, facts get to be released and it's rewritten as it was meant to be. Abe Lincoln may have been vilified at his death, but history has rewritten his legacy appropriately.

[@oldmanjenkins9230]

Same with jfk and mlk

[@rayr5950]

@@suprememate9818 “Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom . . . are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him . . . with rare exceptions, you can’t believe what any major Lincoln scholar tells you about Abraham Lincoln and race.”-Lerone Bennett, Jr., Forced into Glory, p. 114. Bennett was a distinguished African-American author and spent 20 years researching for that book and of course he was attacked by the priests of the church of Lincoln. He would say this to a largely black American audience, "If the quote, unquote "great emancipator" had been able to carry out his lifelong dream of deporting my great great grandmama and your great great grandmama and great grandpapa and create the great all white Eden, we would not be here"

[@luke_222]

Keep in mind Lincoln was still a white supremacist, don't over-idolize him

[@eddiealfano]

The ghost of Johnson walks by at 2:59

[@123HappyMad]

Eddie Alfano WHY DIDN’T ANYONE ELSE SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?

[@eddiealfano]

Jackson Brit Conspiracy!??!

[@neonflashsparkotron5435]

Eddie Alfano thats why im in the comment section i thought it was a reflection of my tablet and i thought my house had a ghost. But no, thats scary as f***

[@wilburmcbride8096]

Eddie Alfano Please, probably someone touring the museum...

[@ryangreen4305]

Wilbur Mcbride let us think it’s a ghost!

[@wukanimation]

I always find the elderly and extremely knowledgable guides for these reviled figures so adorable.

[@BondClothing]

dunce

[@joelbizzell1386]

Johnson: I got impeached. Clinton: I got impeached. Trump: Hold my Adderall.

[@jassyjasdesan1674]

I repeat ...Trump impeached ✌🏼 twice 😂

[@blarstone9322]

Just because they're impeached doesn't mean they're removed from office. Checkmate

[@joelbizzell1386]

@@blarstone9322...okay?

[@dredre1527]

You left out Nixon

[@The_Notorious_N.O.E.]

You beat me to the joke 😅🤣😂

[@s4gr_n0s3y]

Johnson: I was impeached Clinton: same thing with me Trump: I was the first president to be impeached twice

[@peterdaniel66]

Wow you are so woke!! I’m just in awe of your wokeness. You are amazing

[@s4gr_n0s3y]

@@peterdaniel66 Ikr

[@jdamah]

Acquitted twice

[@J1000-e3n]

@@jdamah impeached twice, president only once

[@J1000-e3n]

@@peterdaniel66 Damn 🧂 you salty huh

[@JdDiehl]

“ I don’t know who could’ve been more successful at that time. I don’t think it would’ve been any more smooth sailing for Lincoln”...Well, let’s see here. If Andrew Johnson had not vetoed half of the bills sent by Congress that would’ve helped the newly freed slaves, perhaps he would’ve had a much easier time and more successful presidency 🤷‍♂️

[@jamuraisack5503]

Do you know what all was in those bills?

[@StarscreamTrueDecepticonLeader]

@@jamuraisack5503 very progressive stuff. Pretty much every Civil Rights thing Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson did was in those bills

[@jamuraisack5503]

@@StarscreamTrueDecepticonLeader oh, really? Do yourself a favor and read up on them. You'll find that they're nothing like what you think they were. You're just, what... guessing?

[@StarscreamTrueDecepticonLeader]

@@jamuraisack5503 Eisenhower: Ordered the national guard to guard black children into newly desegregated schools. Kennedy: Pretty much conceived the Civil Rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965. Johnson(LBJ): Him, Lincoln, and Grant were the top 3 presidents that did things for Civil Rights. He pushed the aforementioned civil rights acts through Congress because LBJ was a master persuader. I forgot another president: Truman: He desegregated the Military. I know the Civil Rights Act and the Voting rights act were in the bills that A. Johnson vetoed and any kind of bill that entailed any type of progress or desegregation he vetoed

[@jamuraisack5503]

@@StarscreamTrueDecepticonLeader and you STILL haven't looked at the bills A Johnson vetoed.

[@Unbrickme]

"Filmore's lips were on that teacup" the historian is crazy lol

[@franciscomiguel4297]

"yess"

[@mikeblazey3906]

Someone's jelly

[@the4tierbridge]

That’s a Comedian.

[@sign543]

This reporter sounds like he’s Shaggy’s brother from Scooby Doo.

[@loco4331]

SHAGGY has a Buddha!?!

[@chseyar936]

😤😤🤣🤣

[@Draxxdemsklounst]

He used to be a Daily Show correspondent!

[@richsackett3423]

He does have a little Casey Kasem happening.

[@delmanglar]

He's trying to be funny without telling any jokes.

[@amandaoutlaw1349]

Andrew Johnson, in all those pictures, looked like he was gonna snap someone's neck in a second.

[@tomhchappell]

Amanda Outlaw He had a reputation as a whiny bully.

[@applescruff1969]

That's because he probably was.

[@r.a.c.5754]

@@tomhchappell Sounds like a certain former POTUS whose name rhymes with "chump."

[@jamesa2482]

@@r.a.c.5754 don’t cry lefty.

[@kwamezulushabazz]

"He never forgot the sound of someone criticizing him."

[@kaymuldoon3575]

In the History Channel’s series “The Presidents”, it was said that most historians considered Buchanan to be the worst. And was always at the bottom of the list.

[@lostintime8651]

Nixon was thin-skinned too. That is what took him down. Too bad. He was doing so many good things for America.

[@dannyc6987]

@@lostintime8651 He was a corrupt crook

[@jpsned]

I visited the Johnson Historic Site in Greenville, TN. I had studied him in high school and always felt for the man. As they said at the end of this video, he had been put into a very difficult situation and it would have been difficult for anyone to have been able to do the job well. Even JFK spoke of his admiration for Johnson in the book, "President Kennedy Selects Six Brave Presidents."

[@larryhovekamp4318]

The choice of Andrew Johnson as Vice President- Lincoln's WORST decision.

[@gamingman3575]

Hannibal Hamlin would've been better. Of course we didn't know Lincoln would be a**inated

[@TheDylandProductions]

1:37 Not "Andrew JohnsInn." Missed opportunity!

[@Danymok]

That would be epic

[@musashi.miyamoyo]

@@Danymokfound you, Ben Shapiro.

[@Danymok]

@@musashi.miyamoyo Ben Shapiro?!?

[@sambradley1968]

Ironically, it was Andrew Johnson who said "Treason is a crime that must be made odious". 🤔

[@ChickenMcThiccken]

except andrew johnson wasn't treasonous. meaning, andrew johnson will no longer become the worst. trump just took his spot

[@notvalidcharacters]

1:10 the idea that a "Union-supporting Southern Democrat was not supposed to exist" would come as quite a surprise to the Texas Hill Country, Searcy County Arkansas, Winston County Alabama, the Free State of Jones in Mississippi, the hills of northwest Georgia and Johnson's own back yard which tried to secede from Tennessee the way West Virginia did (Scott County Tennessee was only readmitted to the state in 1986), ALL of which were bastions of Union support which considered the CSA secession to be illegal. All this does is propagate the myth that "the South" -- rather than aristocratic élite elements IN the South --- started the Civil War, as if "the South" was somehow "unified" in the quest. It's true that "Democrats" effectively didn't exist since the Confederacy had no political parties but the rest of the description was in no way unusual ESPECIALLY in east Tennessee. The aforementioned Scott County voted *95% against* secession in its referendum and then proceeded to secede from the state. So Union-supporting Southerners, Democrats or not, certainly did exist and made considerable noise.

[@tomhchappell]

notvalidcharacters My GreatGrandFather was one of those Tennesseans; he ignored Confederate laws and obeyed the Lincoln administration. (He lived in Waverly.)

[@coe8159]

I’ve always felt bad for Johnson He was given the toughest job in the world repairing the US after the worst war in our history and keeping us together after Lincoln was shot.

[@noahgreene7565]

He was possibly the worst president we’ve ever had

[@coe8159]

@@noahgreene7565 there has been and is much worse.

[@martinsvec1832]

Part of it was his disposition though. This video depicts him as a president who wanted to "Unite" the North & South, but doesn't really examine the ideas of how he felt that would be done. He was more along the ideas of "reuniting" the two sides means giving the South a bit of its "right" back... by that, I mean, "rights to own other humans as property." He wrote to a Missouri governor “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men,” and his willingness to veto bill after bill that would have helped the newly freed slaves establish themselves in the hostile grounds of the South. Johnson was unwilling to run contrary to his Southern peers, ultimately drawing out the tensions of the time, instead of stamping out the fires. Someone who was more in line with Lincoln may have done that, but Johnson certainly was not that man.

[@larrybaldwin8325]

He was in No-Win situation, Lincoln himself would have had Immense trouble with the Radicals in Congress

[@matthewhedrichjr.5445]

I do for when he was a kid but it appears he was very authoritarian to how he controlled the presidency as he disregarded Lincoln’s achievements, argued with the Radical Republicans about Reconstruction, and almost every time he kept vetoing, Congress overrode his vetoes. He was the first officially impeached for breaking the Tenure of Office Act, but was not found guilty. Still his legacy and reputation was badly hurt after this.

[@Designed1]

"Andrew Johnson: The impeached president" Nixon: ._.

[@alexandrkrupka1766]

Nixon was never impeached.

[@Designed1]

@@alexandrkrupka1766 He was never removed from office but he still got impeached

[@alexandrkrupka1766]

@@Designed1 Impeachment does not mean removed from office. Impeached means articles of impeachment passed the house and reached the senate. Nixon resigned prior to articles of impeachment being passed in the house. Only Johnson, Clinton, and Trump have been Impeached.

[@scottknode898]

@@alexandrkrupka1766 your right Nixon was facing impeachment and certain removal from office and resigned from office in 1974 and had his 2nd Vice President Gerald Ford take over as President as his successor. Nixon was the only President to resign from office.

[@markmitchell3097]

Nixon Clinton Trump

[@nihatbekiroglu8004]

Twenty years ago Tommy Lee Jones would have been the perfect choice for his portrayal in a movie, he just looks like him !

[@maggiemae7749]

He is kin to him. That's why

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

Could still do it with deaging techniques.

[@nicks.carter574]

THEY LOOK ALIKE..

[@acdragonrider]

Maggie Mae wait really?

[@SamWinchester000]

I've been regularly thinking like that for a while now about Bryan Cranston and George Bush senior. He would be so incredibly perfect to play Bush, and as Cranston can play absolutely anything and Bush has participated in one of the most important events in history, the end of the Cold War, this should be very interesting and honorable to Cranston.

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

I didn't realise actor Tommy Lee Jones was President? :P

[@sean2015]

he does look like TLJ, I commented the same thing

[@shelbycox6332]

I allwas thought that too

[@aubreyt.copeland5019]

I literally just posted that same joke without realizing someone else beat me to it. LOL

[@sean2015]

@@aubreyt.copeland5019 LOL, I've noticed that same thing for years...and when I went to post it recently I saw that others had already posted the same thing. (I guess I'm not the only one who thinks so!) Steven Spielberg should've cast Tommy Lee Jones in the _Lincoln_ movie as Andrew Johnson (instead of Thaddeus Stevens). In fact TLJ grew up in the same part of the country as Andrew Johnson so I bet their voices and accents were as similar as their looks.

[@kaymuldoon3575]

sean2015 agreed. Although TLJ looks a lot like Thaddeus Stevens, too. I think he did a great performance as TS.

[@tijmenvanderschaar2849]

Why am I watching this? Im not even American.

[@NyQuilable]

That's like an American asking why they're watching a video on Leopold II. Knowledge of history isn't geographic-specific.

[@facelessnas6499]

Because it can still be interesting to learn history,even if it’s not about your country.

[@nickverse3463]

😐

[@balrog322]

Actually, you Sound like a lot of Americans-folk who would rather suffer solitary confinement than read or watch anything relating to history, even their own.

[@sciencenerd777]

Learn about other people, it'll help you alot

[@dormantrabbits]

Time to update the list

[@Robert-ur2zb]

Finding this in December of 2019 is appropriate.

[@ben3634]

lol

[@thomascars1]

Imagine losing a nice spot from James Buchanan

[@MoBahar687]

That 2:59 ghost really got me there ! Thought it was a reflection in my room .

[@bobapbob5812]

rambled on insulting other people. Sounds contemporary.

[@byoung4310]

Bet he was a lot better than Trump

[@Harmonikaklange]

Lincoln DID NOT pick Johnson; the Baltimore convention did. Lincoln was not thrilled.

[@YarrBr0]

Johnson: many historians consider me the worst president, a petulant man who held grudges against his critics Trump: Hold my McNuggets

[@ewangent]

Trump really won't be considered the worst.

[@rickardkaufman3988]

@@ewangent He's rated the worst so far.

[@ewangent]

@@rickardkaufman3988 It's called contemporary bias Obama is not a top ten US President of all time and most historians consider the likes of Wilson, Buchanan and Pierce as worse than Trump.

[@rickardkaufman3988]

@@ewangent Understood. But currently he's considered the worst president since the end of WWII.

[@ewangent]

@@rickardkaufman3988 Wait 16 years and then reconsider it look at Bush, he has higher approval ratings now, roughly 55-65%.

[@paulwblair]

5:35 - No, I think Lincoln might have been more successful than Johnson by not being pro-slavery.

[@paulwblair]

To the Southern tour guide, Lincoln being against slavery was "politically savvy."

[@cainabel6356]

@Paul Borst - He never switched from being a Democrat. Lincoln chose Johnson because he was a Democrat and was trying to get Democratic support in getting rid of slavery. Johnson was still a Democrat and ran as one in the when he was running for office.

[@cainabel6356]

@ Paul Blair - True.

[@SamWinchester000]

@@cainabel6356 Not exactly, you're right, but they ran as "National Union Party", and Wikipedia explains that actually this party alliance worked down to the lowest level of politics in that election year, with Republicans and pro-war Democrats agreeing on joint candidates even for local offices. Also, while he was a Democrat he largely had opponents from both parties in congress, which is why he unsuccessfully tried to relive the National Union Party and make it his new party as this was his only theoretical possibility to get reelected. So he only remained a Democrat because he couldn't turn the National Union Party into a permanent party.

[@SamWinchester000]

@@cainabel6356 P. S.: It's interesting that not all sources have it right or are detailed enough to have it right, e. g. I have a lexicon at home where Johnson is attributed as Republican (it also attributes Washington as a Federalist), so I guess the exact knowledge on it propably wasn't so much established in the past.

[@libertyann439]

Sounds like someone we know.

[@davidpfeifer9489]

liberty Ann Bill Clinton?

[@kaymuldoon3575]

Comparing Johnson to trump is an insult to Johnson.

[@davidpfeifer9489]

Kay Muldoon Lol Johnson was a racist who was also impeached. Come back to reality... just cuz u disagree doesn’t make him a criminal

[@kaymuldoon3575]

Michael Bramlett exactly.

[@ryanolivercolbert921]

@liberty Ann...Say it again!!!

[@syourke3]

If Lincoln is the best, his immediate predecessor and his immediate successor were the worst. Buchanan and Johnson. Johnson was the biggest mistake Lincoln ever made - well, the second biggest. His biggest mistake was going to the theatre that night!

[@matthewhedrichjr.5445]

Worst of all, Lincoln dismissed his bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon and Officer John Parker let Lincoln out of sight at Ford’s Theater.

[@janrafftuzon8269]

Reconstruction was a disaster

[@spacekitt.n]

Trump just made Andrew Johnson look like FDR

[@robertamato358]

Get ready to augment this list. I think we have a new contender!

[@Charlie-uz8vb]

But Obama left four years ago.

[@shittin_on_the_job]

Woodrow wilson left office almost a century ago.

[@tommyt1971]

Mo’s the best at these fun historical pieces.

[@jeanjacques6664]

People from his hometown are still proud of him.

[@jimmypatterson3998]

Why ??

[@jeanjacques6664]

@@jimmypatterson3998 ??Have you watched the video?Interviewee from his hometown said that.

[@ComanderSD]

I'll watch anything with Mo Racca!

[@victorhinojos3050]

Wait wait don't tell me!

[@kaymuldoon3575]

It's Not Drew I remember him on The Daily Show way back (probably late 90s/early 2000s)

[@bonob0123]

on the contrary I find him incredibly abrasive and annoying and condescending.

[@lostintime8651]

I can play a mean pair of Mo Raccas

[@apieceofhair8449]

Donald Trump: the president that was impeached twice

[@AureliusLaurentius1099]

Both over a political hissyfit by the opposing party I am sure weaponizing the impeachment process won't have any repercussions in the future

[@kayden2119]

King Henry VIII Tudor Lmao this is what trump has done to people. You are living in a different reality. He caused a insurrection and abused his power. How do you not see this

[@judemetz8963]

@@AureliusLaurentius1099 You apparently don't understand the gravity of inciting an insurrection.Nothing political about sending your goons to stage a deadly cout d'etat. Or maybe you too attended these festivities?

[@rebeccatmontes3797]

Trump was not convicted. The Democrats framed hi up.

[@AureliusLaurentius1099]

@naitethagr8 I am not even supporting Trump in my statement. I am pointing out that political hissy fits and hatred by the opposing party weaponizing the impeachment process just because you hate the President is dangerous especially if you use baseless and unproven reports. What if the GOP won both Houses and began an impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden for some baseless report? You guys literally impeached a guy with no preliminary investigation(which is a prerequisite ) which only started AFTER he got acquitted. Your comments like the DNC show more about your derangement and vicious hatred for the opposition

[@anihtgenga4096]

"He kept us out of Reconstruction."

[@Perririri]

hE kEpT uS oUt Of CoViD-65

[@koopaboy6661]

Andrew Johnson: the impeached president. Donald Trump: hold my fast food.

[@adamclark9004]

Joe Biden: hold my dirty diaper

[@matthewhedrichjr.5445]

Tyler: Hold my food Nixon: Same here

[@mathewrivers8064]

Also Trump: Hold my beer and watch me win a 2nd term

[@donheil9665]

"Wouldn't have been smooth sailing for President Lincoln" with due respect to the park ranger if Lincoln would have deservedly been able to fully see Reconstruction to it's full realization we would be a different country to this day. Johnson purposely ruined reconstruction and put retributive policies in place instead. Lincoln was very clear that GRACE and reconciliation needed to reign in the reconstruction policies. Rebuild the country in body, mind and soul. The Civil war was a tragic and bloody mistake. Lincoln was the voice of reason that should have been allowed to see us through the aftermath. When we lost him we lost our anchor and our nations conscience. Oh Captain, My Captain." Look up Whitman if you don't get it.

[@notvalidcharacters]

Not sure where you're getting all this. Johnson *resisted* the retributive policies of the radicals. Even the video just said so. That's in line with Lincoln's "malice toward none", not opposed to it.

[@xijinping4418]

Of all the comments I've seen here, you said it best.

[@xijinping4418]

@@notvalidcharacters The Republican congress's propositions weren't inherently retributive though, and you act like Johnson didn't have a racist agenda he was trying to push. Go read some of his firsthand writings, it's not even conjecture that he was explicitly against black suffrage and citizenship. He said it himself.

[@harlow743]

They wanted to impear him but decided to impeach....because they have fewer calories

[@Qrayon]

Oh! That's bad!

[@Undying3001]

That's so bad it actually looped back around and was kinda funny.

[@darreljohnson3644]

Giggle Giggle....

[@Perririri]

I don't speak Portuguese!

[@andykaufman7620]

Which is the worse: WOODROW WILLSON!!! CBS would never make a show about that topic, but Woodrow Wilson was one of the worse. Andrew Johnson, on the other hand, simply was not radical enough, but keep in mind who he was. He was a DEMOCRAT (Unionist). He was the only one of his party that sided with the North and the Republicans. Think of it like this. Imagine a Democrat who hated Donald J Trump, and sided with the Republicans and Donald Trump in particular. Would the Democrats or RINO Republicans love that person? Nope, would they most likely demonize and hate that person. Yup they sure would. That is how the Radical Republicans felt about Andrew Johnson, though he rejected the Democrat Party support for the Civil War.

[@ReligiousZombie]

A better president would have recognized that the South NEEDED to be punished, and in addition maybe would have banned the flying of that damn Confederate flag, which haunts us to this day.

[@sketch3460]

Not the only one impeached.

[@jackbuckley221]

I've pondered this man for many a year, having visited the historic sites in Greeneville on 2 occasions, about 30 years apart. While in the museum, a very good one on the era, visitors can vote as to whether or not they believe he was guilty of the impeachment charges, and therefore be removed from office. Both times, I voted "Not Guilty". Even 30 years couldn't change my mind on this. As for his Reconstruction policies, Johnson today is viewed as a blatant racist. The term didn't mean then what it's come to mean in our time. While the man had no particular affection for the black race, and felt that it was, unfortunately, inferior to the white, his reason for vetoing so many of the Congressional bills to aid African-Americans(a term not used then or for many generations thereafter), was based on his strong, unbreakable constitutional principles re: powers of an overreaching federal government. He felt these matters rightfully belonged under the jurisdiction of the states. I believe most, if not all, of these vetoes were overturned by the Congress. I think the former tailor wanted to be fair to blacks, he just didn't want the federal government imposing its will. After all, he likely reasoned, the individual states knew what was best for the populations within their borders. Of course, we now can see with the passage of history, that as soon as federal troops withdrew from the south, and the states regained their authority(after meeting the requirements for re-joining the Union), the horrors of segregation and Jim Crow rapidly set in. Admittedly, it's difficult to engender much sympathy or affection for Mr. Johnson, when he's viewed in today's light. Nevertheless, I feel I understand him, as seen through his own life-experiences and world-view. Although it's become a cliche', the 17th president was a man of his time. He simply believed he was doing the right thing--upholding the Constitution and defending the presidential prerogative. In hindsight, historians, both professional and amateur alike, claim that he paved the way for all the despicable ills of Reconstruction and the horrendous decades of its legacy that continued nearly up to our own century. That's unfair, I think. Noone, perhaps not even the Illinois railsplitter himself, had the sagacity and vision to deal with the problems of the post-Civil War period, with all the rampant prejudices and political minefields that existed upon Johnson's ascendancy to the White House. We mustn't forget either that Johnson did, in fact, see the handwriting on the wall, realizing the rebellion couldn't be won without the slaves ultimately being emancipated. Unless I'm mistaken, which always is possible, the Unionist Democrat freed his own slaves in advance of his boss' proclamation to that effect. To be sure, the Tennessean had a hair-trigger temper, die-hard grudges against the aristocratic plantation elite, and a negative opinion toward blacks generally. In the final analysis, though, I confidently can state that, yes, after 30-plus years, I understand Andrew Johnson. I'll even toss in some sympathy, as well. I'll continue pondering this man for many more years to come, I'm certain of it.

[@notvalidcharacters]

Excellent analysis, sir. Bravo. The term "aristocratic plantation élite" cannot be understated here. This was the element who in fact *begat* the Civil War, to the profound annoyance of the common farmer particularly here in Appalachia, where slaves in effect did not exist and the locals resented being forced into yet another Rich Man's War. Johnson's east Tennessee (right over those mountains, pointing) voted decisively against secession and would have seceded from Tennessee themselves in protest like West Virginia did, but for the amassing of Confederate troops preventing that from happening. Pockets of resistance to the Confederacy bubbled up as well in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas. And of course desertions and draft-dodging were rampant. The standard American history fable fails to go into those finer details, presenting a "the South" as if it were all one monolithic universe. That was never the case. Johnson was thus a true representative of his region, which is more significant than being from "the South".

[@jackbuckley221]

@@notvalidcharacters Many excellent points, sir, very perceptive insight. I'm glad you approved of mine. I realized after posting my original statement that I made a factual error. Mr. Johnson never owned slaves himself. It was as Governor of Tennessee that he issued an order outlawing slavery in the state, in advance of Mr. Lincoln's more-expansive proclamation which went into effect in Jan. of 1863. Sadly, Johnson's issuance wasn't done out of compassion but rather as a measure of wartime expediency. He never reneged on it, though, and this must stand as a point in his favor, as well as a testament to his character, a kind of personal code of honor. I'll have to do more study, but I'm coming to believe that the man himself probably abhorred slavery, his having been an indentured tailor's apprentice in his younger years. He just wasn't sure how the two races could coexist, a problem which plagued the country's founders from the beginning. The pondering goes on...

[@troidva]

This video overlooks the most bizarre incident concerning the impeachment. The night before the May 1868 vote in Andrew Johnson's Senate trial, a twenty-year-old girl named Lavinia “Vinnie” Ream--the celebrated artist and coquettish society sensation who at the age of 18 was awarded the Congressional commission to sculpt the statue of Lincoln now standing in the Capitol rotunda--used her talents to foil the purpose of a midnight caller to her father’s Capitol Hill residence: to secure the deciding vote for conviction from Republican Senator Edmund Ross, a resident in that house. The visitor was Daniel Sickles--litigious Manhattanite real estate speculator, notorious lady's man, ex-Congressman, acquitted killer of his wife's lover, former Civil War general, recently-sacked military governor of the Carolinas, future lover of the Spanish Queen, and as of 1868 the most notorious and formidable political hatchet man in 19th-Century Washington. Acting under the assumption that Ross was "hopelessly infatuated" with pro-Johnson Vinnie and willing to do her bidding to acquit Johnson, Sickles showed up at midnight determined to overcome Vinnie's opposition by using all the tools at his disposal: bribery, intimidation, or seduction. See here the details of how young Vinnie successfully thwarted Sickles--thereby saving President Andrew Johnson from impeachment in a video entitleld "The Devil vs. the Hummingbird":: www.c-span.org/video/?456987-1/sculptor-vinnie-ream-daniel-sickles-andrew-johnsons-impeachment

[@gamingman3575]

A bit ironic that Lincoln, the greatest president, had 2 bad presidents before him (Pierce and Buchanan) and 1 after him (Johnson)

[@Grivian]

When I was a kid I thought "impeached" meant tortured lol

[@colenewaltersmusicandother9330]

He was not a local boy that did good. It was a local boy that did bad and it’s connected to everything that is happening right now in our country.

[@youngtimer964]

The description of his personality is oddly familiar ....

[@SkipAd_Vegas]

This will have to be completely updated hopefully by the new year.

[@smellyfly9469]

L

[@murialgoldman5670]

Nope. Gotta have an actual reason for Impeachment. You being butthurt isn't a reason

[@SkipAd_Vegas]

@@murialgoldman5670 You poor little lemming.

[@MinecraftMasterChief719]

Twice impeached Trump

[@davidfrias1896]

Worst president ever. What is Donald J Trump?

[@joshkeijzer]

What a recommendation

[@amboy106]

“Even James Buchanan gets a better spot” ☠️

[@TheAeroAvatar]

"Now that's an insult" XD

[@DarthWill3]

Johnson had a somewhat better understanding of the Constitution than Trump. In fact, he _loved_ the Constitution, _worshiped_ it.

[@matthewhedrichjr.5445]

He did but that does not impact his lackluster presidency

[@ltrain4479]

Lincoln also wanted the south treated leanantly, not just Johnson. Grant took this into consideration when Lee surrendered.

[@steftrando]

He did at first but his thinking likely would have evolved, as it did on many other issues.

[@tobbyhappy3572]

Yes.

[@keithwolfe1942]

No, the absolutely worse was Thomas Woodrow Wilson.

[@markofthewolvessucks8930]

Facts

[@keithwolfe1942]

Where to start: League of Nations, prohibition, being the most bigoted president ever, resegregation of federal work force, US first concentration camps in 20th century, federal income tax, and much more.

[@carlmoore3215]

3:08 -- Lincoln assassinated 5 weeks after (2nd) inauguration? It's just about 6 weeks (41 days from March 4 to April 14; he survived unconscious and died the next morning).

[@robertferguson136]

Ah, yes. Andrew Johnson, our family tailor when we Fergusons were in Green County, Tennessee pre-Civil War.

[@SiVlog1989]

Robert Ferguson wow, talk about small world situation

[@jenniferharris2864]

It's GreenE County (Greeneville).

[@stanleywheeler404]

Robert that's interesting! My wife is a Ferguson from Pennsylvania!

[@majorettegirl3]

@@stanleywheeler404 Probably related to Kern family from Bellefonte Pennsylvania

[@thehomeplatespecial597]

Thank you!

[@PriceStats]

Not the last time a president got impeached😂

[@basicdata]

Quite similar to Lyndon B. Johnson after JFK's assassination. Regarding things unpopular.

[@SamWinchester000]

@Brian H And on the other hand he was reelected with the best result in history (only recording the facts), which is pretty much the opposite of what Andrew Johnson had.

[@SamWinchester000]

@Brian H I meant his only election, a vice president turned president who gets elected for a second term (his first full term) is also called reelected, and his election had the pest popular vote result in history (63% and something I guess), which was very slightly better than FDR's previous record result of nearly 63%. Of course Reagan, Nixon, FDR etc. had better electoral college results, but although the popular vote is an unofficial figure, it represents much more how succussful the election was and how much approval the president had.

[@SamWinchester000]

@Brian H Reelected does not have to mean that he was elected twice, as I feel the language, the "re" simply stands for the fact that he's president once more, he's elected back (returned) into the office he already holds. Look at this example of John Tyler, a vice president who only had one partial presidential term from 1841 to 1845 after William Henry Harrison's death and ultimately did not run for *reelection* in 1844 (although he wanted and tried it so much): millercenter.org/president/tyler/campaigns-and-elections www.thoughtco.com/john-tyler-10th-president-united-states-104767 www.biography.com/us-president/john-tyler www.whitehousehistory.org/john-tyler-and-presidential-succession

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Trump: Hold my spray tan.

[@mathewrivers8064]

Also Trump: keep my seat warm while I come back for a second term

[@wayneedward7391]

He was the VP to Lincoln and it didn't work out very well

[@Boaz833]

He only got impeached once? Big deal.

[@liamkalfus1784]

Honestly I would not really consider Andrew Johnson the worst president ever.

[@mindeloman]

Seems like most people tend to have a mythological view of Lincoln.....like some sort of larger than life folk hero. Which makes Johnson the anti-hero. I've actually taken the time to indepthly study Lincoln. I've read multiple biographies on the man. First, Lincoln was a manic depressive. He fought suicidal thoughts his entire life. 2nd, he was widely unpopular i the north for getting them involved in a idealogical war that he sold them as being for "union" but everyone knew what the real Republican reason was for going to war. As the death toll climbed (as William T. Sherman fortold would happen and was labeled as crazy) Lincoln's popularity was wanning. Even be did not believe he could win reelection. The public sentiment was that strong against him and his war of folly that produced nothing decisive in the eastern front. Bobby Lee had the Union's number. But with Sherman's decisive win at Atlanta it showed that Lincoln was about to break the war open. He won in 1864 but it wasn't a landslide. It was after his death that he became this larger than life folk hero.....no doubt, due to newspapers wanting to sell papers and people wanting to read about their great fallen president. We the same thing in the 20h century with Kennedy. For 30 years the popular sentiment was JFK was some sort of political messiah. While i'll always defend him and his war record, be was still just a rich playboy who knew how to exist in the big boys club, and was a womanizer that constantly cheated on his wife. But people run from the hard truth. Fiction is so much more self-validating.

[@Jkstolz]

Did he smile???

[@jimmypatterson3998]

No.

[@matthewharvey1415]

Mo Rocca: "So you're still proud of him?" Ranger Guy: "Absolutely." But why? Just why? No, seriously, why? Why would you proud of this guy? He was a semi-literate, racist, drunken bum.

[@dutchvanderlinde5004]

All of our Presidents are unique.

[@davidkirivita2918]

I understand Johnson

[@davidkirivita2918]

I don’t support him but understand why

[@crawford323]

High crimes and misdemeanors, treason... so what was his failings as for as in the eyes of the constitution and law?

[@PeopleHealthTru]

Exactly. This Mean Stream Media report doesn't even give a valid reason/crime for the impeachment. Leftists want you to believe that 'feelings' is reason.

[@avigindratt7608]

@@PeopleHealthTru This dude was one of the most racist presidents ever, and here you are defending him - u cowards are all the same. He was impeached for some congressional formality, as is usually the case.

[@PeopleHealthTru]

@@avigindratt7608 Not defending him as you so falsely accuse. The TV story fails to give an impeachment crime/reason. Did you watch?

[@PeopleHealthTru]

@@avigindratt7608 USA is probably the least racist country because it has been a mixing pot of Europeans, then +Africans, +Asians, +now a changeover of cities by illegals who force Spanish as the language - problem.

[@PeopleHealthTru]

@@avigindratt7608 Since you Leftist said (Democrat) Johnson was racist, be aware that women love Muslim men because they are masculine - not homosexuals raised by solo moms.

[@charlesmcsweeney1152]

He even looks mean.

[@Endgame707]

Andrew Johnson Was European 🇪🇺

[@sean2015]

2:42 imagine trying to listen to a POTUS deliver an inaugural address outdoors, in front of thousands of spectators, in an era long before microphones...I'll bet Lincoln's throat was hoarse for weeks after this. Heck look at that happened to William Henry Harrison; the man was almost 70 years old when he gave his inaugural speech (in 1841) and he was dead of pneumonia a month later. Undoubtedly a contributing factor was the exhaustion of having to bellow at the top of his lungs to make himself audible to the masses of spectators (Tippecanoe's inaugural address was 8500 words long and took two hours to recite).

[@cfaz6763]

Love these clips.

[@Phil_3.0shorts]

Here’s my top 10 worst presidents 10 George W. Bush 9 Richard Nixon 8 Warren G Harding 7 Lyndon B. Johnson 6 Joe Biden 5 William Henry Harrison I know he died in 32 days after he got inaugurated but I don’t care 4 Franklin Pierce 3 James Buchanan 2 Barack Obama 1 Woodrow Wilson

[@Phil_3.0shorts]

@@lonewalker_1155 know what ok I’ll replace Martin Van Buren with joe Biden

[@luxeternal1258]

4:23 Now where have I heard this from? It reminds me of someone... 🤔🤣

[@coronavirus5738]

Looks like his relative😆

[@delmanglar]

Crooked Hillary

[@acdragonrider]

delmanglar no trump

[@spartanumismatics8165]

@@coronavirus5738 no where his relative

[@XMattingly]

Fast forward two years: *Andrew Johnson: The Not-Twice-Impeached President*

[@mathewrivers8064]

Fast forward three years: Donald Trump is back for a second term.

[@XMattingly]

@@mathewrivers8064 Yes, as a twice-impeached (with more to come) convicted felon, convicted sex offender, traitor who stole dozens of top secret documents and serial dictator licker. His low information imbecile cult hates women, the Constitution, democracy and law.

[@XMattingly]

@@mathewrivers8064 That'd be the twice impeached (with more to come) convicted felon, convicted sex offender traitor to the Constitution and the republic, yes.

[@kcguy8864]

Wow.. I totally forgot about Mo Rocca... He had no grey hairs last time I saw him

[@ubr-mtv8702]

This video leaves out every important detail pertaining to the subject matter.

[@LSmoney215]

Why are this town is proud of this man

[@SurvivingAnotherDay]

5:53 When people see me say the right answer in class

[@thesilverspider]

A fascinating historical coincidence: About 100 years after the assassination of Lincoln, yet another great president was assassinated, and then his vice-president, also with the last name "Johnson", assumed the presidency. Reincarnation? National karma? **shrugs** LOL

[@Grymgar]

Hope everyone is doing well here in 2021. Things are getting really crazy but hopefully we pull through.

[@46st]

God Bless how you doing me I'm trying to stop bullshitting be lazy and be a director and win a Oscar

[@GAURAV25855ify]

Like Gangs of New York

[@Selfpreservationformystarseeds]

WOW awesome

[@StephenS-2024]

I'd like to shake the hand that shook the hand that shook the hand of the man ...

[@anthonys5542]

I'd like to shake the hand of the hand that shook the hand....of .... I'd like to shake your hand.

[@StephenS-2024]

@@anthonys5542 😁👋

[@jimmypatterson3998]

So would I. Just hope that hand has been washed and sterilized.

[@AJxxxxxxxx]

Cough(trump)

[@VicNotorious]

2:59 Ghost walking in the background 😬

[@johncloois3301]

Read your comment, 3 seconds later saw it. Yes!

[@travisdavis3974]

Johnson was not about healing the country

[@lordspam2721]

Oh. You mean rebuilding the south after it was burned down? Thats how you heal a country after a civil war. He was impeached because he did try to heal the country. Dems wanted to keep the boot on a throat. Also, Lincoln wanted to remove freed slaves from the US. I will go with Obama as the worst. Doubled our debt, created ISIS and caused more racial division.

[@travisdavis3974]

@@lordspam2721 good points. I'll look into Johnson more, being from the south I may have bought into the southern Democrat propaganda.

[@lordspam2721]

@@travisdavis3974 thats a reasonable response. I actually believe not rebuilding the south feeds right into the racial division of the 1900's. It all started with his impeachment. Notice they didn't actually say why he was impeached

[@prettynikky2097]

Ohhh, so he wanted to “give the working man a leg-up,” -unless it was the working men formerly known as slaves. Got it.

[@danielrickel8807]

Johnson was definitely an evil man but not the worst president we’ve ever had.

[@TheLordOfNothing]

15: James Buchanan (TERRIBLE) 16: Abraham Lincoln (GREAT) 17: Andrew Johnson (BAD) Lincoln is placed in between two terrible presidents Edit: spelling

[@JC-uf4zu]

Lincoln has the blood of all who died in the Civil War on his hands. The South will rise again.

[@ss_takes1093]

@@JC-uf4zu Every Dixie boy must mind his Uncle Sam

[@matthewhedrichjr.5445]

@@JC-uf4zu Buchanan did nothing to prevent the Civil War by not doing anything to prevent secession

[@carpenoctem775]

2:59 Johnson’s ghost passed by.

Growen-up I was a thinking AJ took the award, hands down. Along comes #45. This orange faced wild hair feller is now surpassing ol' Andy in all areas of the contest. Of course Donny is wealthy. He can prepare himself for this distinction. Wealthy, so wealthy. He'll tell you that. People tell him all the time Mr. Donny you are so rich, a beautiful rich man. He can buy coaches & teachers. Beautiful coaches & teachers, wonderful coaches & teachers, the best coaches & teachers. AJ was poor, struggled to make more of himself, immigrated to Greeneville, Tennessee coming over the Appalachian Mountains from North Carolina. Started a Taylor shop, a merchant. Poor working feller, middle class feller. Now I'm not a saying Donny cheats, (he does) however, he has an advantage in this here contest. This is a title Andy will gladly hand over to the blowhard.

[@ayecarumba4928]

That was enlightening

[@ThatFanBoyGuy]

CBS Sunday Morning 2016: James Buchanan is the worst president! CBS Sunday Morning 2018: Andrew Johnson is the worst president!

[@michaelwhitcher2862]

Wait, so he was not removed from office. So impeachment means nothing. So if I was wrongfully arrested , but found innocent. I was still arrested. INPEACHED MEANS NOTHING UNLESS FOUND GUILTY. LOL