Andrew Johnson actually said...

"By direction of the President, Brigadier and Brevet Major-General Irvin McDowell is assigned to the command of the Department of the East."

"I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State of the 2d instant, together with accompanying papers."

"I transmit to Congress a copy of a dispatch from the United States consul at Elsinore, and of an instruction from the Secretary of State to the United States minister at Copenhagen, relative to an all..."

"I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th instant, upon the subject of Messrs. Warren and Costello, who have been convicted..."