“Again, I congratulate Milla Santapaola on this impressive accomplishment.”
“Again, I congratulate Holden Schoen on this impressive accomplishment.”
“I do not doubt that she will succeed in her future academic and military career.”
“I am confident that Milla's time in Annapolis will be similarly impactful for her.”
“I am confident that Holden's time at this incredible institution will be similarly impactful for him.”
“Nominating young people to our service academies is one of my greatest honors as a Member of Congress.”

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On the recordJuly 15, 1866
I feel well assured that it will be better to trust the rights, privileges, and immunities of the citizen to tribunals thus established, and presided over by competent and impartial judges, bound by fixed rules of law and evidence, and where the right of trial by jury is guaranteed and secured, than to the caprice or judgment of an officer of the Bureau, who it is possible may be entirely ignorant of the principles that underlie the just administration of the law.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee
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