Trump’s illegal assertion of executive power echoes the attempt 158 years ago by President Andrew ... of post-Civil War reunification. The policy goals of the racist Johnson were not laudatory ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists turns this vision on its head. As one of the first acts of his presidency, it ...

The broad pardon power vested in the U.S. president is often a topic of controversy, especially when its exercise shocks the public conscience, as was seen when President Donald Trump pardoned ...

Before the U.S. entered World War II, the aviator Charles Lindbergh ... This all brings to mind President Andrew Johnson’s Christmas 1868 “full pardon and amnesty” for all those “who ...

A Liberian rights activist tells RFI it was "painful" to see Johnson ... the civil wars. But two years later, while running for president, the father of 12 justified his role in the war.

He became infamous in 1990 after appearing in a video sipping beer while watching his fighters slowly mutilate and torture then president Samuel Doe to death. Although a 2009 government report ...

Other presidents such as Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, James Madison, Andrew Johnson and ... reconciliation after the Civil War and draft dodgers from the Vietnam War. President Biden’s preemptive ...

The Civil War freed 4 million enslaved people ... juries and elected officials. On Dec. 25, 1868, President Andrew Johnson issued a full pardon to all former Confederate soldiers who had ...

Former President ... World War 2, however he was responsible for the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan that led to massive destruction. Johnson was best known for enacting the Civil Rights ...