Yes, exactly. I agree 100%
Which is why keeping the President who saw the threat clearly—and the chief advisor who was actively radicalizing him—alive and in a position to drive political will & focus was the only possible way for Reconstruction to have succeeded.
But for Booth’s bullet.
Which is why keeping the President who saw the threat clearly—and the chief advisor who was actively radicalizing him—alive and in a position to drive political will & focus was the only possible way for Reconstruction to have succeeded.
But for Booth’s bullet.
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I believe Lincoln would have fallen in with the radical republicans—as the rest of the party did—and with Douglass in his ear, galvanized the will to get it done.