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Johnson's third term in Congress found him stiffening in his opposition to non essential government spending, from expenses of the new Smithsonian Institute to the purchase of portraits for the White House.
As Johnson's Secretary of State, he engineered the 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia in an act that was ridiculed at the time as " Seward's Folly ".
The purchase was variously mocked by the public as Seward's Folly, " Seward's Icebox ," and Andrew Johnson's " polar bear garden.
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 ).
With that move and new owner Butch Johnson's purchase of the team almost simultaneously, things began to look up for the Black Hawks.

Johnson's and Alaska
" Gaining Senate approval of the Alaska treaty was Johnson's singular legislative accomplishment in the midst of a political war with Congress.
An American production, it relocated the events to Alaska and referred to Johnson's character merely as " Trapper ", or in the theme song, " Trapper Man ".
The Canol Road starts at Johnson's Crossing on the Alaska Highway near the Teslin River bridge, east of Whitehorse, Yukon and runs to the Northwest Territories border.

Johnson's and from
Johnson's fat hand, another bottle were protruding from the truck cab, and that self-proclaimed Baptist teetotaler, had a bottle at his own lips.
I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.
Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen ( newly freed slaves ), and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U. S. House of Representatives ; he was acquitted by the U. S. Senate.
Though she suffered from consumption, Eliza supported Johnson's endeavors.
* Johnson's obituary, from The New York Times
He was obtained from the Yankees in exchange for Luis Vizcaino, Ross Ohlendorf, Alberto Gonzalez and Steven Jackson, with the Yankees paying $ 2 million of Johnson's $ 26 million salary.
His love for numerous styles of music can be traced from his early recording of stride-pianist James P. Johnson's " Johnson Rag ," all the way to the rock stylings of Eric Johnson, an invited guest on Atkins's recording sessions who, when Chet attempted to copy his influential rocker " Cliffs of Dover ," led to Atkins's creation of a unique arrangement of " Londonderry Air ( Danny Boy ).
Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Pope, are Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and John Keats's Lamia.
Scottish author Hugh Blair's 1763 A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian upheld the work's authenticity against Johnson's scathing criticism and from 1765 was included in every edition of Ossian to lend the work credibility.
After the war, as President of what is now Washington and Lee University, Lee supported President Andrew Johnson's program of Reconstruction and intersectional friendship, while opposing the Radical Republican proposals to give freed slaves the vote and take the vote away from ex-Confederates.
" A further theory is that it derives from Johnson's word skavoovie, with which he was known to greet his friends.
Lee attempted to link up with the remnants of Confederate General Joe Johnson's defeated army ; however, Union cavalry forces led by Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan were able to stop the two armies from converging.
In the end, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who presided over the trial, was thought to have brought about Johnson's acquittal by the Senate with his statements from the bench.
Many people saw Humphrey as Johnson's stand-in ; he won major backing from the nation's labor unions and other Democratic groups that were troubled by young antiwar protesters and the social unrest around the nation.
This was Johnson's first bout since winning the heavyweight title from Tommy Burns.
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.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language ( 2002 )
By a majority of one member ( 29 – 28 ) the committee voted to certify Johnson's nomination, with the last vote cast on Johnson's behalf by Temple, Texas, publisher Frank W. Mayborn, who rushed back to Texas from a business trip in Nashville, Tennessee.
His lack of influence was thrown into relief later that year when Kennedy appointed Johnson's friend Sarah T. Hughes to a federal judgeship ; whereas Johnson had tried and failed to garner the nomination for Hughes at the beginning of his vice presidency, House Speaker Sam Rayburn wrangled the appointment from Kennedy in exchange for support of an administration bill.
Legend has it that, as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide, " We have lost the South for a generation ", anticipating a coming backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party.
The Great Society program, with its name coined from one of Johnson's speeches, became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, Medicaid, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime, and removal of obstacles to the right to vote.

Johnson's and 1867
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.
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.

Johnson's and was
Johnson's left hand was pressed against the side of his head, red cheeks whitening beneath his fingers.
The Indian was again raising his bottle, but to my astonished relief -- probably only a fraction of Johnson's -- the bottle this time went to the Indian's lips.
" Est vir qui adest ", explained below, was cited as the example in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.
Johnson's grandfather William was poverty stricken, and was unable to educate his son Jacob or pass on any land to him.
The campaign included fierce debates ; Johnson's primary issue was the passage of the Homestead bill, which Haynes contended would facilitate abolition.
Johnson's " unwavering commitment to the Union " was a significant factor in making him Lincoln's choice as vice president on the Union Party's premier ticket that year.
" Biographer Trefousse indicates that Johnson's drinking on the occasion was the result of ill health which began before his arrival in Washington, though the exact nature of the ailment is not specified.
Johnson's demeanor was described as " solemn and dignified " and " his bearing produced a most gratifying impression upon those who participated.
Johnson's personal attitude of white supremacy was seen in his hostility toward expanded rights for freedmen.
By the summer of 1866 Johnson's method of restoring states to the Union by executive fiat, without safeguards for the Union Party or the freedmen, was in deep trouble.
According to Stewart, there was evidence that gambling interests may have influenced Johnson's impeachment trial.
One of Johnson's last significant acts as President was to grant unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant but before he took office in March 1869.
Many critics considered Johnson's actions were passive and delayed, and thought his defense of the Monroe Doctrine in this instance was weak.
" Whether Johnson's description was entirely truthful or embellished is unclear, but it seems likely that Teach understood the value of appearances ; better to strike fear into the heart of one's enemies, than rely on bluster alone.
Although he initially declined the part of Dr. David Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading Kenneth Johnson's script for the pilot episode, he was persuaded to change his mind ( and agreed to remain involved with the series for as long as Johnson was to be involved ).
The same message was conveyed to US President Johnson's emissary Chester Bowles in January 1968.
Strategically, the period was dominated by Lyndon Johnson's fateful decision to escalate the war in South East Asia.
Victor Zalgaller in 1969 proved that Johnson's list was complete.
Despite Valenti's two-year marriage to Johnson's personal secretary, the investigation focused on rumors that he was having a gay relationship with a commercial photographer friend.

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