Is it me or does every picture of Andrew Johnson depict him as looking particularly miserable

“Fillmore’s lips were on that tea cup.” That is the funniest thing I’ll hear all day.

I'm not an American, I'm not black but whenever I see Abe Lincoln's portrait or picture, I feel the urge to hug him and say thank you. He did not deserve the kind of end he got. I don't think anyone else can leave a legacy like he did 🙏

The ghost of Johnson walks by at 2:59

I always find the elderly and extremely knowledgable guides for these reviled figures so adorable.

Johnson: I got impeached. Clinton: I got impeached. Trump: Hold my Adderall.

"Filmore's lips were on that teacup" the historian is crazy lol

This reporter sounds like he’s Shaggy’s brother from Scooby Doo.

"He never forgot the sound of someone criticizing him."

Andrew Johnson, in all those pictures, looked like he was gonna snap someone's neck in a second.

I visited the Johnson Historic Site in Greenville, TN. I had studied him in high school and always felt for the man. As they said at the end of this video, he had been put into a very difficult situation and it would have been difficult for anyone to have been able to do the job well. Even JFK spoke of his admiration for Johnson in the book, "President Kennedy Selects Six Brave Presidents."

Ironically, it was Andrew Johnson who said "Treason is a crime that must be made odious". 🤔

“ I don’t know who could’ve been more successful at that time. I don’t think it would’ve been any more smooth sailing for Lincoln”...Well, let’s see here. If Andrew Johnson had not vetoed half of the bills sent by Congress that would’ve helped the newly freed slaves, perhaps he would’ve had a much easier time and more successful presidency 🤷‍♂️

Johnson: I was impeached Clinton: same thing with me Trump: I was the first president to be impeached twice

That 2:59 ghost really got me there ! Thought it was a reflection in my room .

Twenty years ago Tommy Lee Jones would have been the perfect choice for his portrayal in a movie, he just looks like him !

Finding this in December of 2019 is appropriate.

1:37 Not "Andrew JohnsInn." Missed opportunity!

I’ve always felt bad for Johnson He was given the toughest job in the world repairing the US after the worst war in our history and keeping us together after Lincoln was shot.

Thank you!

"Andrew Johnson: The impeached president" Nixon: ._.

The choice of Andrew Johnson as Vice President- Lincoln's WORST decision.

Imagine losing a nice spot from James Buchanan

I didn't realise actor Tommy Lee Jones was President? :P

1:10 the idea that a "Union-supporting Southern Democrat was not supposed to exist" would come as quite a surprise to the Texas Hill Country, Searcy County Arkansas, Winston County Alabama, the Free State of Jones in Mississippi, the hills of northwest Georgia and Johnson's own back yard which tried to secede from Tennessee the way West Virginia did (Scott County Tennessee was only readmitted to the state in 1986), ALL of which were bastions of Union support which considered the CSA secession to be illegal. All this does is propagate the myth that "the South" -- rather than aristocratic élite elements IN the South --- started the Civil War, as if "the South" was somehow "unified" in the quest. It's true that "Democrats" effectively didn't exist since the Confederacy had no political parties but the rest of the description was in no way unusual ESPECIALLY in east Tennessee. The aforementioned Scott County voted *95% against* secession in its referendum and then proceeded to secede from the state. So Union-supporting Southerners, Democrats or not, certainly did exist and made considerable noise.

Mo’s the best at these fun historical pieces.

Reconstruction was a disaster

Get ready to augment this list. I think we have a new contender!

Time to update the list

Johnson: many historians consider me the worst president, a petulant man who held grudges against his critics Trump: Hold my McNuggets

Why am I watching this? Im not even American.

Love these clips.

Sounds like someone we know.

Trump just made Andrew Johnson look like FDR

"He kept us out of Reconstruction."

He was not a local boy that did good. It was a local boy that did bad and it’s connected to everything that is happening right now in our country.

This will have to be completely updated hopefully by the new year.

If Lincoln is the best, his immediate predecessor and his immediate successor were the worst. Buchanan and Johnson. Johnson was the biggest mistake Lincoln ever made - well, the second biggest. His biggest mistake was going to the theatre that night!

This video leaves out every important detail pertaining to the subject matter.

People from his hometown are still proud of him.

They wanted to impear him but decided to impeach....because they have fewer calories

"Wouldn't have been smooth sailing for President Lincoln" with due respect to the park ranger if Lincoln would have deservedly been able to fully see Reconstruction to it's full realization we would be a different country to this day. Johnson purposely ruined reconstruction and put retributive policies in place instead. Lincoln was very clear that GRACE and reconciliation needed to reign in the reconstruction policies. Rebuild the country in body, mind and soul. The Civil war was a tragic and bloody mistake. Lincoln was the voice of reason that should have been allowed to see us through the aftermath. When we lost him we lost our anchor and our nations conscience. Oh Captain, My Captain." Look up Whitman if you don't get it.

5:35 - No, I think Lincoln might have been more successful than Johnson by not being pro-slavery.

rambled on insulting other people. Sounds contemporary.

This video overlooks the most bizarre incident concerning the impeachment. The night before the May 1868 vote in Andrew Johnson's Senate trial, a twenty-year-old girl named Lavinia “Vinnie” Ream--the celebrated artist and coquettish society sensation who at the age of 18 was awarded the Congressional commission to sculpt the statue of Lincoln now standing in the Capitol rotunda--used her talents to foil the purpose of a midnight caller to her father’s Capitol Hill residence: to secure the deciding vote for conviction from Republican Senator Edmund Ross, a resident in that house. The visitor was Daniel Sickles--litigious Manhattanite real estate speculator, notorious lady's man, ex-Congressman, acquitted killer of his wife's lover, former Civil War general, recently-sacked military governor of the Carolinas, future lover of the Spanish Queen, and as of 1868 the most notorious and formidable political hatchet man in 19th-Century Washington. Acting under the assumption that Ross was "hopelessly infatuated" with pro-Johnson Vinnie and willing to do her bidding to acquit Johnson, Sickles showed up at midnight determined to overcome Vinnie's opposition by using all the tools at his disposal: bribery, intimidation, or seduction. See here the details of how young Vinnie successfully thwarted Sickles--thereby saving President Andrew Johnson from impeachment in a video entitleld "The Devil vs. the Hummingbird":: www.c-span.org/video/?456987-1/sculptor-vinnie-ream-daniel-sickles-andrew-johnsons-impeachment

That was enlightening

Lincoln DID NOT pick Johnson; the Baltimore convention did. Lincoln was not thrilled.

Ah, yes. Andrew Johnson, our family tailor when we Fergusons were in Green County, Tennessee pre-Civil War.

Not the only one impeached.

When I was a kid I thought "impeached" meant tortured lol

They say when you pass his grave he can hear laughter and if you listen closely he's saying you guys got me on that?

5:53 When people see me say the right answer in class

I'll watch anything with Mo Racca!

The description of his personality is oddly familiar ....

Honestly I would not really consider Andrew Johnson the worst president ever.

4:23 Now where have I heard this from? It reminds me of someone... 🤔🤣

Trump: Hold my spray tan.

Yes.

All of our Presidents are unique.

Wow.. I totally forgot about Mo Rocca... He had no grey hairs last time I saw him

Johnson had a somewhat better understanding of the Constitution than Trump. In fact, he _loved_ the Constitution, _worshiped_ it.

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, NC.

This NICE!

Andrew Johnson: the impeached president. Donald Trump: hold my fast food.

3:08 -- Lincoln assassinated 5 weeks after (2nd) inauguration? It's just about 6 weeks (41 days from March 4 to April 14; he survived unconscious and died the next morning).

Mo Rocca! I wondered where you disappeared to-- I've missed you!

WOW awesome

Donald Trump: the president that was impeached twice

Mo Rocca: "So you're still proud of him?" Ranger Guy: "Absolutely." But why? Just why? No, seriously, why? Why would you proud of this guy? He was a semi-literate, racist, drunken bum.

What a recommendation

Ohhh, so he wanted to “give the working man a leg-up,” -unless it was the working men formerly known as slaves. Got it.

2:59 Ghost walking in the background 😬

Lincoln also wanted the south treated leanantly, not just Johnson. Grant took this into consideration when Lee surrendered.

Literally thought it was Andrew Jackson this whole time

I'd like to shake the hand that shook the hand that shook the hand of the man ...

He was the VP to Lincoln and it didn't work out very well

High crimes and misdemeanors, treason... so what was his failings as for as in the eyes of the constitution and law?

Lincoln looked at them people that did not need to be here. But I'm truly glad they are

Yeah, the schools don't keep up connected!

Hope everyone is doing well here in 2021. Things are getting really crazy but hopefully we pull through.

Quite similar to Lyndon B. Johnson after JFK's assassination. Regarding things unpopular.

Is that the wait wait don’t tell me guy?

A better president would have recognized that the South NEEDED to be punished, and in addition maybe would have banned the flying of that damn Confederate flag, which haunts us to this day.

Fast forward two years: *Andrew Johnson: The Not-Twice-Impeached President*

2:42 imagine trying to listen to a POTUS deliver an inaugural address outdoors, in front of thousands of spectators, in an era long before microphones...I'll bet Lincoln's throat was hoarse for weeks after this. Heck look at that happened to William Henry Harrison; the man was almost 70 years old when he gave his inaugural speech (in 1841) and he was dead of pneumonia a month later. Undoubtedly a contributing factor was the exhaustion of having to bellow at the top of his lungs to make himself audible to the masses of spectators (Tippecanoe's inaugural address was 8500 words long and took two hours to recite).

Why would anyone make a statue of an impeached president ???

Is it just me or does he slightly resemble Alan Rickman?

I've pondered this man for many a year, having visited the historic sites in Greeneville on 2 occasions, about 30 years apart. While in the museum, a very good one on the era, visitors can vote as to whether or not they believe he was guilty of the impeachment charges, and therefore be removed from office. Both times, I voted "Not Guilty". Even 30 years couldn't change my mind on this. As for his Reconstruction policies, Johnson today is viewed as a blatant racist. The term didn't mean then what it's come to mean in our time. While the man had no particular affection for the black race, and felt that it was, unfortunately, inferior to the white, his reason for vetoing so many of the Congressional bills to aid African-Americans(a term not used then or for many generations thereafter), was based on his strong, unbreakable constitutional principles re: powers of an overreaching federal government. He felt these matters rightfully belonged under the jurisdiction of the states. I believe most, if not all, of these vetoes were overturned by the Congress. I think the former tailor wanted to be fair to blacks, he just didn't want the federal government imposing its will. After all, he likely reasoned, the individual states knew what was best for the populations within their borders. Of course, we now can see with the passage of history, that as soon as federal troops withdrew from the south, and the states regained their authority(after meeting the requirements for re-joining the Union), the horrors of segregation and Jim Crow rapidly set in. Admittedly, it's difficult to engender much sympathy or affection for Mr. Johnson, when he's viewed in today's light. Nevertheless, I feel I understand him, as seen through his own life-experiences and world-view. Although it's become a cliche', the 17th president was a man of his time. He simply believed he was doing the right thing--upholding the Constitution and defending the presidential prerogative. In hindsight, historians, both professional and amateur alike, claim that he paved the way for all the despicable ills of Reconstruction and the horrendous decades of its legacy that continued nearly up to our own century. That's unfair, I think. Noone, perhaps not even the Illinois railsplitter himself, had the sagacity and vision to deal with the problems of the post-Civil War period, with all the rampant prejudices and political minefields that existed upon Johnson's ascendancy to the White House. We mustn't forget either that Johnson did, in fact, see the handwriting on the wall, realizing the rebellion couldn't be won without the slaves ultimately being emancipated. Unless I'm mistaken, which always is possible, the Unionist Democrat freed his own slaves in advance of his boss' proclamation to that effect. To be sure, the Tennessean had a hair-trigger temper, die-hard grudges against the aristocratic plantation elite, and a negative opinion toward blacks generally. In the final analysis, though, I confidently can state that, yes, after 30-plus years, I understand Andrew Johnson. I'll even toss in some sympathy, as well. I'll continue pondering this man for many more years to come, I'm certain of it.

Where I live is the same place he was born our major bypass is called “ Andrew Johnson highway “

Why is it called good Friday if he died on it (Abraham Lincoln)

0:53 lol that's nothing compared to the way trump acted when he lost the election.

Cough(trump)

Seems like most people tend to have a mythological view of Lincoln.....like some sort of larger than life folk hero. Which makes Johnson the anti-hero. I've actually taken the time to indepthly study Lincoln. I've read multiple biographies on the man. First, Lincoln was a manic depressive. He fought suicidal thoughts his entire life. 2nd, he was widely unpopular i the north for getting them involved in a idealogical war that he sold them as being for "union" but everyone knew what the real Republican reason was for going to war. As the death toll climbed (as William T. Sherman fortold would happen and was labeled as crazy) Lincoln's popularity was wanning. Even be did not believe he could win reelection. The public sentiment was that strong against him and his war of folly that produced nothing decisive in the eastern front. Bobby Lee had the Union's number. But with Sherman's decisive win at Atlanta it showed that Lincoln was about to break the war open. He won in 1864 but it wasn't a landslide. It was after his death that he became this larger than life folk hero.....no doubt, due to newspapers wanting to sell papers and people wanting to read about their great fallen president. We the same thing in the 20h century with Kennedy. For 30 years the popular sentiment was JFK was some sort of political messiah. While i'll always defend him and his war record, be was still just a rich playboy who knew how to exist in the big boys club, and was a womanizer that constantly cheated on his wife. But people run from the hard truth. Fiction is so much more self-validating.

Not the last time a president got impeached😂

“Even James Buchanan gets a better spot” ☠️

Andrew Johnson is my distant relative, and I found this interesting to know. I respect any president who takes on such tasks...it must be so mentally draining.

A fascinating historical coincidence: About 100 years after the assassination of Lincoln, yet another great president was assassinated, and then his vice-president, also with the last name "Johnson", assumed the presidency. Reincarnation? National karma? **shrugs** LOL

Me watching this after learning that I’m related to him.

You got a town naming stuff after him? He was a flaming racist, and had sympathy for the South. WTF!

I bet ain’t a black person lives no where near there.