Andrew Johnson: The impeached president
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- Raised in poverty, uneducated, a working class figure whose political ethos was "my way or the highway," Andrew Johnson's surprising rise to the Oval Office upon Abraham Lincoln's assassination was followed by a torturous relationship with Congress and the first impeachment of a U.S. president. Mo Rocca looks back at the life of the Southern Democrat who was one of America's most unfortunate chief executives.
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“Fillmore’s lips were on that tea cup.” That is the funniest thing I’ll hear all day.
the historian is crazy lol
@@karlk9316 bruh your crazy
Reece A and fake news
“BECAUSE HE WAS GAY?!” 😂
@@Eric_1991 fredick
Is it me or does every picture of Andrew Johnson depict him as looking particularly miserable
sbaker190189 ya its u.
sbaker190189 Maybe cuz he was miserable in his life.....
He bears a striking resemblance to Tommy Lee Jones
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".
That Is his Happy face!
Johnson: I got impeached.
Clinton: I got impeached.
Trump: Hold my Adderall.
I repeat ...Trump impeached ✌🏼 twice 😂
Just because they're impeached doesn't mean they're removed from office. Checkmate
@@blarstone9322...okay?
You left out Nixon
You beat me to the joke 😅🤣😂
The ghost of Johnson walks by at 2:59
Eddie Alfano WHY DIDN’T ANYONE ELSE SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?
Jackson Brit Conspiracy!??!
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***
Eddie Alfano Please, probably someone touring the museum...
Wilbur Mcbride let us think it’s a ghost!
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 🙏
But I am happy we were freed because I wouldn’t be here😂😂
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.
Same with jfk and mlk
@@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"
Keep in mind Lincoln was still a white supremacist, don't over-idolize him
This reporter sounds like he’s Shaggy’s brother from Scooby Doo.
SHAGGY has a Buddha!?!
😤😤🤣🤣
He used to be a Daily Show correspondent!
He does have a little Casey Kasem happening.
He's trying to be funny without telling any jokes.
I always find the elderly and extremely knowledgable guides for these reviled figures so adorable.
dunce
Johnson: I was impeached
Clinton: same thing with me
Trump: I was the first president to be impeached twice
Wow you are so woke!! I’m just in awe of your wokeness. You are amazing
@@peterdaniel66 Ikr
Acquitted twice
@@jdamah impeached twice, president only once
@@peterdaniel66 Damn 🧂 you salty huh
"Filmore's lips were on that teacup" the historian is crazy lol
"yess"
Someone's jelly
That’s a Comedian.
Andrew Johnson, in all those pictures, looked like he was gonna snap someone's neck in a second.
Amanda Outlaw He had a reputation as a whiny bully.
That's because he probably was.
@@tomhchappell Sounds like a certain former POTUS whose name rhymes with "chump."
@@r.a.c.5754 don’t cry lefty.
1:37 Not "Andrew JohnsInn." Missed opportunity!
That would be epic
@@Danymokfound you, Ben Shapiro.
@@musashi.miyamoyo Ben Shapiro?!?
Twenty years ago Tommy Lee Jones would have been the perfect choice for his portrayal in a movie, he just looks like him !
He is kin to him. That's why
Could still do it with deaging techniques.
THEY LOOK ALIKE..
Maggie Mae wait really?
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.
I didn't realise actor Tommy Lee Jones was President? :P
he does look like TLJ, I commented the same thing
I allwas thought that too
I literally just posted that same joke without realizing someone else beat me to it. LOL
@@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.
sean2015 agreed. Although TLJ looks a lot like Thaddeus Stevens, too. I think he did a great performance as TS.
Trump just made Andrew Johnson look like FDR
“ 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 🤷♂️
Do you know what all was in those bills?
@@jamuraisack5503 very progressive stuff. Pretty much every Civil Rights thing Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson did was in those bills
@@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?
@@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
@@StarscreamTrueDecepticonLeader and you STILL haven't looked at the bills A Johnson vetoed.
Johnson: many historians consider me the worst president, a petulant man who held grudges against his critics
Trump: Hold my McNuggets
Trump really won't be considered the worst.
@@ewangent He's rated the worst so far.
@@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.
@@ewangent Understood. But currently he's considered the worst president since the end of WWII.
@@rickardkaufman3988 Wait 16 years and then reconsider it look at Bush, he has higher approval ratings now, roughly 55-65%.
Cough(trump)
Donald Trump: the president that was impeached twice
Both over a political hissyfit by the opposing party
I am sure weaponizing the impeachment process won't have any repercussions in the future
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
@@Laurentius1099 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?
Trump was not convicted. The Democrats framed hi up.
@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
The Donald Trump of the 19th century
Nope 😂
@@omg_cHOi yes😂
@@FishTankk6578 how?
@@omg_cHOi Yes
Yes
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.
notvalidcharacters My GreatGrandFather was one of those Tennesseans; he ignored Confederate laws and obeyed the Lincoln administration. (He lived in Waverly.)
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."
"Andrew Johnson: The impeached president"
Nixon: ._.
Nixon was never impeached.
@@alexandrkrupka1766 He was never removed from office but he still got impeached
@@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.
@@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.
Nixon Clinton Trump
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!
Worst of all, Lincoln dismissed his bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon and Officer John Parker let Lincoln out of sight at Ford’s Theater.
Ironically, it was Andrew Johnson who said "Treason is a crime that must be made odious". 🤔
except andrew johnson wasn't treasonous. meaning, andrew johnson will no longer become the worst. trump just took his spot
The choice of Andrew Johnson as Vice President- Lincoln's WORST decision.
Hannibal Hamlin would've been better. Of course we didn't know Lincoln would be a**inated
They wanted to impear him but decided to impeach....because they have fewer calories
Oh! That's bad!
That's so bad it actually looped back around and was kinda funny.
Giggle Giggle....
I don't speak Portuguese!
Andrew Johnson: the impeached president.
Donald Trump: hold my fast food.
Joe Biden: hold my dirty diaper
Tyler: Hold my food
Nixon: Same here
Why am I watching this? Im not even American.
That's like an American asking why they're watching a video on Leopold II. Knowledge of history isn't geographic-specific.
Because it can still be interesting to learn history,even if it’s not about your country.
😐
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.
Learn about other people, it'll help you alot
"He never forgot the sound of someone criticizing him."
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.
Nixon was thin-skinned too. That is what took him down. Too bad. He was doing so many good things for America.
@@lostintime8651 He was a corrupt crook
Imagine losing a nice spot from James Buchanan
Donald Trump: The Impeached President. 12/17/2019
A sad day (not really) for the USA
Donald Trump: The Harrassed President. 2017-2019
@anthony gomes Nah, no praying for Trump...maybe for our country, but never for Trump...he's the anti-christ.
kamuelalee I try not to insult people on here but you’re actually an idiot.
Lincoln DID NOT pick Johnson; the Baltimore convention did. Lincoln was not thrilled.
No, the absolutely worse was Thomas Woodrow Wilson.
Facts
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.
Get ready to augment this list. I think we have a new contender!
But Obama left four years ago.
Woodrow wilson left office almost a century ago.
Finding this in December of 2019 is appropriate.
lol
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.
rambled on insulting other people. Sounds contemporary.
Bet he was a lot better than Trump
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.
He was possibly the worst president we’ve ever had
@@noahgreene7565 there has been and is much worse.
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.
He was in No-Win situation, Lincoln himself would have had Immense trouble with the Radicals in Congress
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.
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.
Not the last time a president got impeached😂
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.
Johnson had a somewhat better understanding of the Constitution than Trump. In fact, he _loved_ the Constitution, _worshiped_ it.
He did but that does not impact his lackluster presidency
This segment was made about 2 years too early...We can now add Trump as worst President ever after 01/06/2021.
This will have to be completely updated hopefully by the new year.
L
Nope. Gotta have an actual reason for Impeachment. You being butthurt isn't a reason
@@murialgoldman5670 You poor little lemming.
Twice impeached Trump
5:35 - No, I think Lincoln might have been more successful than Johnson by not being pro-slavery.
To the Southern tour guide, Lincoln being against slavery was "politically savvy."
@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.
@ Paul Blair - True.
@@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.
@@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.
The description of his personality is oddly familiar ....
4:23 Now where have I heard this from? It reminds me of someone... 🤔🤣
Looks like his relative😆
Crooked Hillary
delmanglar no trump
@@coronavirus5738 no where his relative
Sounds like someone we know.
liberty Ann Bill Clinton?
Comparing Johnson to trump is an insult to Johnson.
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
Michael Bramlett exactly.
@liberty Ann...Say it again!!!
4:23 - 4:50 His description is exactly the same as Trump.
Omg so true XD
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.
That 2:59 ghost really got me there ! Thought it was a reflection in my room .
Fast forward two years:
*Andrew Johnson: The Not-Twice-Impeached President*
He even looks mean.
Andrew Johnson Was European 🇪🇺
When I was a kid I thought "impeached" meant tortured lol
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
@@lonewalker_1155 know what ok I’ll replace Martin Van Buren with joe Biden
Trump: Hold my spray tan.
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
"He kept us out of Reconstruction."
hE kEpT uS oUt Of CoViD-65
dont bring afghans to usa joe biden i say no
Donald Trump: The impeached president
Reconstruction was a disaster
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
"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.
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.
Of all the comments I've seen here, you said it best.
@@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.
Worst president ever.
What is Donald J Trump?
Time to update the list
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.
Year 2150:
Donald Trump: The Impeached President
you mean "The Twice Impeached President"
Trump i guess
finally.. people I don't trust
CBS Sunday Morning 2016: James Buchanan is the worst president!
CBS Sunday Morning 2018: Andrew Johnson is the worst president!
“Even James Buchanan gets a better spot” ☠️
"Now that's an insult" XD
Is trump the reincarnation of Johnson?
No, Johnson was a patriot he was honorable. Not that he was especially good but those were difficult times too.
Donald Trump makes Andrew Johnson look like a rank amateur.
johnson was the closest to get impeached, followed by clinton and then nixon. Trump won't even come close. They can't even get it past the house.
I think Trump deserves a trophy 🏆 for the most impeachments. Lol
Johnson gets a bad rap. He had a Congress very similar (similar in how they treated the President and members of the opposition. Their policies were polar opposites) to what Obama had in his second term. Congress saw Johnson as being subservient to them. He was impeached for doing exactly what Trump did several times. Johnson didn’t like Lincoln’s Sec of War so he fired him and appointed a new one. Congress said no and put the old one back in place. When Congress went into recess Johnson fired him again and named Grant “acting” Sec of War. After Johnson fired him the first time Congress passed a law saying he couldn’t fire cabinet members without their approval. He violated that law by firing him when they were in recess. That was his only “crime” even though they tacked on a dozen more. It’s sad that he came within one vote in the Senate from being removed from office simply because he wanted to change his cabinet. Johnson seriously gets a bad rap because he was a southern sympathizer after the war ( he was from the south and owned slaves) and a conservative and the Congress was overwhelmingly liberal and wanted the freed slaves to get established and stay protected. It’s quite funny how 2 Democrats were impeached pretty much for political reasons and the 2 Republicans committed actual crimes. The Republicans were playing dirty tricks that far back even though they were the liberal party then. One vote short of getting thrown out of office for doing what Trump did at least once a month.
Quite similar to Lyndon B. Johnson after JFK's assassination. Regarding things unpopular.
@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.
@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.
@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
I bet ain’t a black person lives no where near there.
U B Wrong, son. Although not many.
Not the only one impeached.
Why is it called good Friday if he died on it (Abraham Lincoln)
All of our Presidents are unique.
Who is the best ever?! President Donald J Trump!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸
TaggsR85 -Clearly you need a lesson in what makes for a bad President. Hint: it isn’t what defines your ideology...
2:59 Ghost walking in the background 😬
Read your comment, 3 seconds later saw it. Yes!
Not the worst any longer. "Lock Donny up"
Ohhh, so he wanted to “give the working man a leg-up,” -unless it was the working men formerly known as slaves. Got it.
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.
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
High crimes and misdemeanors, treason... so what was his failings as for as in the eyes of the constitution and law?
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.
@@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.
@@avigindratt7608 Not defending him as you so falsely accuse. The TV story fails to give an impeachment crime/reason. Did you watch?
@@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.
@@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.
2:59 Johnson’s ghost passed by.
Not one decent US president amongst them.. IMO... Tony cuenca
0:53 lol that's nothing compared to the way trump acted when he lost the election.
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.
Ah, yes. Andrew Johnson, our family tailor when we Fergusons were in Green County, Tennessee pre-Civil War.
Robert Ferguson wow, talk about small world situation
It's GreenE County (Greeneville).
Robert that's interesting! My wife is a Ferguson from Pennsylvania!
@@stanleywheeler404 Probably related to Kern family from Bellefonte Pennsylvania
15: James Buchanan (TERRIBLE)
16: Abraham Lincoln (GREAT)
17: Andrew Johnson (BAD)
Lincoln is placed in between two terrible presidents
Edit: spelling
Lincoln has the blood of all who died in the Civil War on his hands. The South will rise again.
@@JC-uf4zu Every Dixie boy must mind his Uncle Sam
@@JC-uf4zu Buchanan did nothing to prevent the Civil War by not doing anything to prevent secession
Andrew Jackson was infact, the absolute worse. Pres 1829 - 1837
Hopefully we can add another "ex-president" to this list of permanently gone wanna-bes.
This guy sounds like 45 if you ask me.
but 45 is a good president
@@clarkreeve lol you watch tv? Nerd
Trump :
- “ I was the most tremendously
WORST 👀president ever ,....who one day,...miraculously,.... miraculously disappeared”...
Wow.. I totally forgot about Mo Rocca... He had no grey hairs last time I saw him
This comment is 2 years too early.
Trump: Hold My pillow...
Good one!