I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

Johnson never would have believed she had a son that age.

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

At this time Johnson built a larger home in Greeneville ( Eliza had given birth to another son and his mother had moved in with them following the death of his stepfather.

Johnson had been so obsessed with the measure that he was said to be " a little cracked on the subject ".

As he had in the past, Johnson steadfastly objected to unnecessary spending by the government, including the military and internal improvements ; he demonstrated he still had no desire to please the conservatives in his party or the opposition.

Though his party won the governor's race and control of the legislature, Johnson still had to overcome considerable opposition from the conservatives in both parties.

In his first speech in Nashville, Johnson declared he had come back home with an olive branch in one hand and the Constitution in the other.

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

But Johnson, with the support of other officials including Seward, insisted that the states, not the federal government, had the right to address the issue of suffrage.

Johnson grew increasingly intransigent on this position, believing that the southern states had legally never left the Union.

Johnson recommended that black voting begin with black troops, those who could read and write, and those who had property of at least $ 200 or $ 250.

Johnson did not deal harshly with Confederate leaders, as he had earlier indicated he would ; he expanded his pardons to include those in the highest ranks of the Confederacy, including their Vice-President, Alexander H. Stephens.

" Johnson said it was an invasion by federal authority of the rights of the states, it had no warrant in the Constitution and was contrary to all precedents.

The two projects which Johnson had most at heart were the speedy admission of the Southern senators and representatives to Congress and the relegation of the question of negro suffrage to the States themselves.

When it reconvened in January 1868, the Senate disapproved of his action, and reinstated Stanton, contending Johnson had violated the Tenure of Office Act.

Since Lincoln rather than Johnson had appointed Stanton, the defense maintained the president had not violated the Act.

Earlier amnesties, requiring signed oaths and excluding certain classes of people, had been issued by Lincoln and by Johnson.

Johnson resented what he had perceived as British sympathy toward the Confederacy and he ignored a series of armed incursions by Fenians ( Irish-American civil war veterans ) into Canada.

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 ).

Breaking a long held tradition, President Johnson declined to ride with Grant's carriage or attend Grant's Inauguration at the Capitol, having chosen to remain at the White House signing last minute bills into law.

Symington, Stevenson, and Johnson all declined to campaign in the presidential primaries.

McCarthy, who was up for re-election in 1970, realized that he had only a slim chance of winning even re-nomination ( he had angered his party by opposing Johnson and Humphrey for the 1968 presidential nomination ) and declined to run.

President Lyndon Johnson offered Dewey a number of positions on several blue ribbon commissions, as well as a seat on the U. S. Supreme Court, but Dewey declined them all, for he preferred to remain in political retirement and concentrate on his highly profitable law firm.

The 1996 offseason was again marked by vast changes: Anderson declined to re-sign, Johnson was shipped to the Knicks for power forward Anthony Mason, and the team made a trade on draft day 1996.

President James Monroe seriously considered Johnson for the position of Secretary of War after Henry Clay declined the office, but the post ultimately went to John C. Calhoun.

When Lewis Tappan requested presentation of an abolitionist petition to the Senate, Johnson, who was still a slaveholder, declined the request.

Johnson considered a gubernatorial bid in 1924 but declined.

Mike Moya re-joined the band for the reunion, while original cellist Norsola Johnson declined to participate.

By 1968, Fogarty had died and Hill and Johnson had declined to run for reelection.

The Labour Party, led by Thomas Johnson from 1917, as successor to such organisations as D. D. Sheehan's ( independent Labour MPs ) Irish Land and Labour Association, declined to contest the 1918 general election, in order to allow the election to take the form of a plebiscite on Ireland's constitutional status ( although some candidates did run in Belfast constituencies under the Labour banner against Unionist candidates ).

Johnson declined to run for reelection in 1852.

The party formed a provincial wing in 1970, the Ralliement créditiste du Québec, which benefited as the UN declined after the death of Premier Daniel Johnson in 1968.

After Johnson declined, Hilton ended up making the agreement with Nicole Richie.

Democrats who opposed Johnson came close to nominating Hoff as a candidate for Vice President at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, but after some initial enthusiasm, Hoff declined to put his name forward.

Returning to England in September 1592, he joined the separatist congregation in London, in which he declined to take office, though after the arrest of the ministers, Francis Johnson and John Greenwood, he seems to have been the regular preacher.

After Dr. Dre declined, Johnson punched him in the back of the head before running towards the nearest exit.

Jeffries soon joined Johnson in the ring and the fight, with Rickard as the referee ( Johnson and Jeffries could not agree on a referee and Rickard's publicity minded offers to President William Howard Taft and writer Arthur Conan Doyle to serve as referee were of course declined.

The debates, however, ceased after the 1960 election, as Lyndon B. Johnson avoided debating in 1964, and Nixon, widely perceived to have made a poor impression on television viewers in 1960, declined to debate in 1968 and in 1972.

Owing to business rivalry between the two leagues, especially in New York, and to personal animosity between Giants manager John McGraw and American League President Ban Johnson, the Giants declined to meet the champions of the " junior " or " minor " league.

Miller declined a commission as a colonel in the Regular Army and resigned from the Volunteers on September 29, 1865, to move back to California when President Andrew Johnson appointed him as collector of customs of the Port of San Francisco, a post he held until 1869 when he declined another term.