MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show November 1, 2016
President number 17 was this clown, Andrew Johnson. Inarguably just a terrible president. And there were a lot of terrible things about Andrew Johnson but the most important and notably terrible thing for the time in which he served is that Andrew Johnson was really, flagrantly, unapologetically racist. He became president upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Right as the north was winning the civil war. Right . And as the war the civil war was ending, this guy, johnson, became president. And johnson did everything he could to undercut the North Victory in the war and to try to undercut ...