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Andrew Johnson: “For the future, friendship between the two countries must rest on the basis of mutual justice.”

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For the future, friendship between the two countries must rest on the basis of mutual justice.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

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Johnson asserts that future friendship between nations should be based on mutual justice.

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