Jeremi Suri
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard 7 Sep
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And he pardons, Don, eventually all Confederates.
And that allows in a state like Texas, where I live, it allows the former leaders of the Confederacy, some of whom actually committed treason twice by joining the Mexican army when they fled, they come back and they become the leaders of the state in the 1870s and 1880s.
So
That's one of the reasons why we have this terrible period of Jim Crow post-Reconstruction is because the Confederates are still in power in the States.
I agree.
And especially in the partisanship of that moment, people were reading either a pro-Confederate or pro-Union newspaper, and that's all the news they were
Andrew Johnson, the man we were just talking about, for two reasons.
First of all, he was so inadequate for the office at a moment of such importance at the end of the Civil War.
And then second, he tried to reverse what the duly elected Congress and others were doing.
And by 1867, 1868...
He was not enforcing laws that Congress had passed, which is one of the reasons he was impeached.
So he was not doing his job.
It's not only that he was passive, he was actively undermining the law of the land and a president's duty under their oath.
The only oath written into the Constitution is to the law of the land, to the Constitution.
He was doing the opposite.
That's right.
Yes, we might be in a period of some of our worst presidents on both sides of the aisle.
And that is because like in the mid 19th century, the world is changing so rapidly and so fundamentally.
And it's very difficult for especially older men who we tend to elect now to adjust.
I mean, we're asking grandpas to make sense of artificial intelligence.
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