"Preview: Author Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace," introduces the moderate Republican voice in Congress, Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, who attempted and failed to find accommodation in the Civil Rights Act, 1866, for the increasingly belligerent and ra

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🗓️ 13 April 2025

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"Preview: Author Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace," introduces the moderate Republican voice in Congress, Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, who attempted and failed to find accommodation in the Civil Rights Act, 1866, for the increasingly belligerent and rash President Andrew Johnson. More later in the new week."

APRIL 15, 1865, ANDREW JOHNSON INAUGURATED POTUS

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0:44.2	This is John Batchel, conversation with Michael Vorenberg, Professor Brown University.
0:50.2	His new book is Lincoln's Peace, The Struggle to End the American Civil War.
0:55.6	Finding an end is a difficult challenge for William Seward, the Secretary of State,
1:02.1	William Stanton is Secretary of War, Gideon Wells, the Secretary of the Navy,
1:07.0	and especially for Andrew Johnson, who was not up to the job that he was thrust into
1:14.2	with the death of Abraham Lincoln.
1:17.0	Andrew Johnson's opposition to fair-mindedness, to the now freed, formerly enslaved peoples,
1:27.1	his general prejudice in all directions, but especially
1:30.5	against the former slaves, very unacceptable any time, then and now. And yet, he had to be
1:40.5	dealt with. He was the president. He could veto anything that the Republican majority
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