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USCHS -- Annual Symposium 2018 "Reconstructing the Constitution" -- Presentation 5: Mark Summers:

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Description of Pictures: The U.S. Capitol Historical Society will hold its annual symposium on May 4, 2018. Reconstructing the Constitution, Remaking Citizenship, and Reconsidering a Presidential Succession will give special attention to the Reconstruction Amendments—especially the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified 150 years ago—the impeachment of Pres. Andrew Johnson, and questions of citizenship and civil rights stretching from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Presentation 5:
Mark Summers, University of Kentucky
"The Taming of Andrew Jackson"

Same Event: Wait! There's more! Because I took too many pictures, photos from this event were divided among the following pages: [Display ALL photos on one page]:

2018_DC_USCHS_P1_180504: USCHS -- Annual Symposium 2018 "Reconstructing the Constitution" -- Presentation 1: Orville Vernon Burton (66 photos from 2018)
2018_DC_USCHS_P2_180504: USCHS -- Annual Symposium 2018 "Reconstructing the Constitution" -- Presentation 2: Paul Finkelman, Gabriel "Jack" Chin, and Alysa Landry (62 photos from 2018)
2018_DC_USCHS_P3_180504: USCHS -- Annual Symposium 2018 "Reconstructing the Constitution" -- Presentation 3: Brandi C. Brimmer (27 photos from 2018)
2018_DC_USCHS_P4_180504: USCHS -- Annual Symposium 2018 "Reconstructing the Constitution" -- Presentation 4: Rebecca E. Zietlow (22 photos from 2018)
2018_DC_USCHS_P5_180504: USCHS -- Annual Symposium 2018 "Reconstructing the Constitution" -- Presentation 5: Mark Summers (50 photos from 2018)
2018_DC_USCHS_P6_180504: USCHS -- Annual Symposium 2018 "Reconstructing the Constitution" -- Presentation 6: Final Q&A and Reception (44 photos from 2018)

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CHSP5A_180504_002.JPG: Mark Summers
2. CHSP5A_180504_019.JPG: "If You Don't Kill the Beast, It Will Kill You": The Taming of Andrew Johnson
3. CHSP5A_180504_055.JPG: Paul Finkelman
4. CHSP5A_180504_142.JPG: So why celebrate the most colossal event that never happened?
5. CHSP5B_180504_010.JPG: Look at this cartoon. The slaying of Caesar. Andrew Johnson is dead -- and the impeachment managers did the assassination, in the name of the republic.
6. CHSP5B_180504_032.JPG: Actually, no. Look at Thaddeus Stevens, departing separately. Three months after the trial finished, Stevens had died.
7. CHSP5B_180504_039.JPG: The President couldn't stand Edwin M. Stanton, his Secretary of War. That was nothing; just about anybody who had to deal with him couldn't stand Edwin M. Stanton.
8. CHSP5B_180504_043.JPG: The miracle defined: if Thaddeus Stevens agreed with John A. Bingham on anything.
9. CHSP5B_180504_113.JPG: As Thaddeus Stevens commented, if they could just impeach for 'general cussedness,' conviction would have been easy.
10. CHSP5B_180504_128.JPG: This little boy would persist in handling books above his capacity. And this was the disastrous result.
11. CHSP5B_180504_134.JPG: The name the President proposed for his new Secretary of War? General Thomas Ewing, Jr., who had made public his belief that Congress was not a legal body and that maybe it ought to be dispersed by force.
12. CHSP5B_180504_145.JPG: "Didn't I tell you? What good has your moderation done you? If you don't kill the beast, it will kill you."
13. CHSP5B_180504_148.JPG: Republicans had about 3/4ths of the votes in the Senate. They detested Johnson. But, as we know, he escaped conviction by a single vote: 35 to 19. Ten Republicans -- three RINOs and seven in good standing voted to acquit. [Republican In Name Only (RINO) is a pejorative term used by conservative members of the United States Republican Party to describe Republicans whose political views or actions they consider insufficiently conservative.]
14. CHSP5B_180504_154.JPG: When you've no votes in the Senate to spare, you've simply got to have everybody on the same page.
15. CHSP5B_180504_160.JPG: Charles Sumner would have voted to convict, even if the articles of impeachment had been a laundry list.
16. CHSP5B_180504_172.JPG: But most Republicans took the trial seriously. By the time arguments closed, it was clear that all but one or two of the eleven articles of impeachment had gone to join the choir invisible.
17. CHSP5B_180504_180.JPG: The small fry made the difference: Senators Peter van Winkle of West Virginia, John Henderson of Missouri, Joseph S. Fowler of Tennessee, and Edmund Ross of Kansas.
18. CHSP5B_180504_186.JPG: But these were named nobody could dismiss, and their defection gave protective cover to the less known men: James W. Grimes, senator from Iowa, chairman of the Naval Committee.
19. CHSP5B_180504_200.JPG: Senator William Pitt Fessenden of Maine, chairman of the Finance Committee.
20. CHSP5B_180504_210.JPG: In fact, there were a few Republican senators, who let it be known that if their votes were needed for acquittal, they would be available.
21. CHSP5B_180504_223.JPG: In fact, it's not at all clear that Benjamin F. Wade, lame-duck senator from Ohio and next in line for the presidency, would have cast his vote to convict, if he knew that it would carry him into the office. He DID vote. But by then, he knew that conviction had failed. One of the few nice things about not being called till the end of the alphabet.
22. CHSP5B_180504_225.JPG: Why did they vote to acquit?
23. CHSP5B_180504_229.JPG: Because one of the managers, as he put it, treated the trial of a president just the way he would a horse-stealing case? Um, yes... partly.
24. CHSP5B_180504_236.JPG: Because the prosecution's arguments didn't hold up well? Yes, to some extent...
25. CHSP5B_180504_252.JPG: Were the votes to acquit bought? Yes -- but not in the way later cartoons implied, with $30,000 to buy three senators. (Senators were rated as cheaper in those days.)
26. CHSP5B_180504_262.JPG: Most southern white Democrats insisted that blacks had no more right to vote than barnyard animals.
27. CHSP5B_180504_274.JPG: Johnson apparently toyed with the idea of declaring that the House was an illegal body, and refusing to treat the trial as valid. Or deciding that the Senate was illegal, and refusing to accept the verdict as lawful.
28. CHSP5B_180504_280.JPG: Having encouraged Johnson to be bold! -- be defiant! -- Democrats now insisted that he wasn't their president, and that if he was about to try something revolutionary, he could include them out.
29. CHSP5B_180504_360.JPG: "My only regret is that I have lived so long and so uselessly." -- Thaddeua Stevens, a few days before he died
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