On Tuesday, December 3, 1867, at 12:30, Col. Robert Johnson, Andrew Johnson's son and Secretary to the President of the United States, fresh out of a three-month stint at the Government Hospital for the Insane for alcohol dependence rehabilitation,[1] "reported the President's annual message" to the U.S. House of Representatives.[2] The text had been leaked to the press early and an investigation of the leak was requested.[3] According to one newspaper, "Outside of reconstruction there are many good things in it which will meet the hearty approbation of the country. On the latter he charges home declaring the Congressional scheme of reconstruction a failure and attended with immense expense, that the negroes being slaves one day are not fit for the exercise of suffrage the next, and twits Congress of the late elections. The President evidently feels his oats this year and is much more defiant than one year ago. Of course he will not see how he himself has stood in the way of reconstruction, and very naturally lays the blame elsewhere."[4]

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  1. ↑ Bergeron, Paul H. (2001). "Robert Johnson: The President's Troubled and Troubling Son". Journal of East Tennessee History. Knoxville, TN: East Tennessee Historical Society. 73: 1–22. ISSN 1058-2126. OCLC 760067571.
  2. ↑ "House of Representatives". The Baltimore Sun. 1867-12-04. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-06-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "President's Annual Message". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1867-12-05. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  4. ↑ "President's Message". Bellows Falls Times. 1867-12-06. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-01-07.


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