'Neither of these crude, self-centered leaders with racist tendencies should be understood as any kind of martyr'
Two reactionary scofflaws, Andrew Johnson and Donald Trump. Photo: The Print Collector/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images It’s not every day that a sitting vice-president of the United States signs his name to an op-ed. But this Wall Street Journal essay by Mike Pence is fascinating, albeit not in the way he probably intended.
Johnson entered office as something of a figure of scandal, having delivered an inaugural address inside the Capitol in a very apparent state of inebriation .Johnson also anticipated Trump in the violent abusiveness of his rhetoric toward political enemies.
In Pence’s account, Johnson was properly acquitted on contrived charges that he violated a statute subsequently deemed unconstitutional, the Tenure of Office Act. That’s only partially true at best. The 11th article of impeachment, the one against which Ross first voted in his “profile in courage,” also cited Johnson’s defiance of congressional Reconstruction generally, and of properly enacted laws regarding the military chain of command in the South that Johnson circumvented.
Ross’ vote wasn’t the lone act of bravery it was later made out to be. At least four other senators were prepared to oppose conviction had their votes been needed–a fact that has been forgotten, maybe, because it doesn’t square with the High Noon portrait of Ross as the man of principle facing down the mob.Ross wasted no time exploiting Johnson’s debt to him.
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