I am entirely persuaded that under such a rule the President can not perform the great duty assigned to him of seeing the laws faithfully executed, and that it disables him most especially from enforcing that rigid accountability which is necessary to the due execution of the revenue laws.
Johnson argues that a specific rule hinders the President's ability to enforce laws effectively.
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My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
As a mark of respect for his memory, it is ordered that the Executive Departments be immediately placed in mourning and all business be suspended on the day of the funeral.
The orders issued by me upon this subject are in accordance with long-established usage and hitherto unquestioned authority.
I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying papers.
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