The civil service was once politicized. Then a president was assassinated.
Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...
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Andrew Johnson
A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction effort following the ... the Civil War was how to re ...
Trump’s pardons of Jan. 6 insurrectionists turns the Founders’ vision on its head
Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists turns this vision on its head. As one of the first acts of his presidency, it ...
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Reconstruction Timeline
The Civil War ends when Confederate general Robert ... and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. July 31: President Andrew Johnson tells Ulysses S. Grant that he intends to fire Secretary of War ...