Many of the men involved with Johnson's acquittal committee were friends of Secretary William Seward, Johnson's strongest ally on his Presidential Cabinet.

Johnson was touched by a Senate scandal in August 1963 when Bobby Baker, the Senate Majority Secretary and a protégé of Johnson's, came under investigation by the Senate Rules Committee for allegations of bribery and financial malfeasance.

Focusing on Johnson's Presidency alone, however, some of his advisers, including Secretary of State Rusk and Walt Rostow, insisted that the Council's advisory role was actually performed principally by another institution, the Tuesday Lunch Group, and that those lunch meetings were in effect regular NSC meetings.

" This belief would stay with Seward through his life and permeate his career, though as Secretary of State under President Johnson he endorsed Johnson's " side-stepping of the demands of more progressive Republicans, who had sought to guarantee far more favorable treatment for freed slaves.

After his initial 1948 plan to expand the Army and modernize its equipment was rejected by the Truman Administration, Bradley reacted to the increasingly severe postwar defense department budget cutbacks imposed by Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson by publicly supporting Johnson's decisions, going so far as to tell Congress that he would be doing a " disservice to the nation " if he asked for a larger military force.

Bradley also suggested that official Navy protests of Secretary Johnson's actions in cancelling construction of its supercarrier, the USS United States were due to improper personal or political, even mutinous motives, calling Navy admirals " fancy dans who won't hit the line with all they have on every play unless they can call the signals ", and who were in " open rebellion against the civilian control.

Abruptly resigning, Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan expressed concern about the future of the United States Marine Corps and marine and naval aviation and Johnson's determination to eliminate those services through progressive program cuts.

Johnson's obstinate attitude toward the State Department role in the preparation of this paper adversely affected his relations with both Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Truman.

Johnson's White House Press Secretary George Reedy told an interviewer: " A great deal of the president's difficulties can be traced to the fact that Walter had to leave .... All of history might have been different if it hadn't been for that episode.

Stanton returned to law after retiring as Secretary of War, and in 1869 was nominated as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by Johnson's successor, Ulysses S. Grant ; however, he died four days after his nomination was confirmed by the Senate.

After the war, Ewing was appointed by President Andrew Johnson to a third post as Secretary of War in 1868 following the firing of Edwin M. Stanton but the Senate, still outraged at Johnson's firing of Stanton — which had provoked Johnson's impeachment — refused to act on the nomination.

The so-called " Revolt of the Admirals " broke out during Louis Johnson's tenure as Secretary of Defense.

Serving as Under Secretary of the Air Force at the Pentagon from 1967 to 1969, he witnessed firsthand the effect of the 1968 Tet Offensive, and Lyndon B. Johnson's subsequent decision to de-escalate the war in Vietnam.

Gardner's term as Secretary of HEW was at the height of Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda.

Johnson's attitude became more favorable after he received a report which his assistant Bill Moyers had prepared at his request, on Weaver's potential effectiveness as the new Secretary.

After the war, he was appointed temporary Secretary of War by President Andrew Johnson, precipitating Johnson's impeachment.

On 7 October 2009, it emerged Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw had rejected London Mayor Boris Johnson's choice of Wadley as head of the London Arts Council.

From 1966 to 1969 he served as Under Secretary for Political Affairs in Lyndon B. Johnson's government, the third-highest ranking official in the State Department.

They lost to Magic Johnson's Michigan State Spartans.

After this accomplishment, Johnson's practice grew as projects came in from the public realm, including coordinating the master plan of Lincoln Center and designing that complex's New York State Theater.

From 1966 to 1968, Brzezinski served as a member of the Policy Planning Council of the U. S. Department of State ( President Johnson's October 7, 1966, " Bridge Building " speech was a product of Brzezinski's influence ).

The county is home to Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park, a popular tourist attraction in the state of Missouri.

Also outside of Kewanee is Johnson's Sauk Trail State Park which offers hunting, boating, camping, picnicking, and other seasona, activities.

* Johnson's Sauk Trail State Park-Hunting, Camping, Fishing, Boating, Hiking, Ryan's Round Barn, and other seasonal activities.

It is adjacent to St. Joe State Park, and nearby the state parks of St. Francois, Hawn, Elephant Rocks, Johnson's Shut-Ins, Taum Sauk Mountain, and Washington.

The State had said that its interests were more important than Johnson's symbolic speech rights because it wanted to preserve the flag as a symbol of national unity, and because it wanted to maintain order.

However, the Democratic State Central Committee sustained Johnson's victory by a 29-28 vote.

The 1979 NCAA Championship Game featured Magic Johnson's Michigan State University team facing off against Larry Bird's Indiana State University team.

The upper reservoir of the Taum Sauk pumped storage plant failed in December 2005, causing a flood that devastated Johnson's Shut-ins State Park and destroyed a part of the Taum Sauk section of the Ozark Trail at the shut-ins.

* Johnson's Shut-ins State Park

The superintendent of Johnson's Shut-Ins and Taum Sauk State Parks, Jerry Toops, his wife and three children were swept away when the wall of water obliterated their home.

However, Ameren refused the state's request for title to or a long-term lease on Church Mountain as part of its settlement for the damage it caused to Johnson's Shut-ins State Park.

* Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park damage update page

Sorensen drafted Johnson's first address to Congress as well as the 1964 State of the Union.

Taum Sauk State Park is in a common jurisdiction with nearby Johnson's Shut-ins State Park, and together they comprise the second largest state park in Missouri with a total area of.

Many famous landmarks are adjacent to Virginia Avenue, including the Watergate complex, George Washington University's Hall on Virginia Avenue ( which, formerly branded as a Howard Johnson's hotel, served as the lookout point for the Watergate break-in in 1972 ), the Pan-American Health Organization, the Harry S. Truman Building ( Department of State headquarters ), the Main Interior Building ( Department of the Interior headquarters ), the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and West Potomac Park.

Johnson's purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867 was his most important foreign policy action.

A sweeping Republican victory in the 1866 Congressional elections in the North gave the Radical Republicans enough control of Congress to override Johnson's vetoes and began what is called " Radical Reconstruction " in 1867.

Beginning on March 2, 1867 the Reconstruction Act, passed over Johnson's veto, required that blacks be allowed to vote and that reconstructed Southern states ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.

After the American Civil War, he vigorously opposed the Congressional Plan for Reconstruction and drafted President Johnson's message vetoing the Reconstruction Act passed on March 2, 1867 ; his veto was overridden.

He served from 1866 to 1867, but his moderate views on African-American suffrage and his endorsement of President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policy caused the Ohio Republicans to reject him for renomination.

In 1866 Williams authored the Tenor of Office Act, passed by Congress in 1867 over President Andrew Johnson's veto, that limited the President in removing Cabinet officers.

In 1867, he authored and supported the Military Reconstruction Act, passed by Congress over President Johnson's veto, that authorized U. S. military control of the South.

Not waiting for Johnson's response — which never came — Blackburn returned to the U. S., arriving in Louisville on September 25, 1867, en route to New Orleans.

In the 1860s, Russia offers Alaska to the United States with a purchase price of seven million dollars ( the real-life Alaska Purchase occurred in 1867, during Andrew Johnson's tenure in office, for a price of $ 7, 200, 000 ).

It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1867 to March 4, 1869, during the third and fourth years of Andrew Johnson's U. S. Presidency.