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Andrew Johnson: But he goes further, and plainly intimates what he means by 'public considerations of a high character,' and this is…

On the recordDecember 11, 1867
But he goes further, and plainly intimates what he means by 'public considerations of a high character,' and this is nothing else than his loss of confidence in his superior.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

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