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.

Its fiery leader Ban Johnson railed against the National League and promised to build a new league that would grab the best players and field the best teams.

Those orders, which became the basis of the claim that the Union government had promised freed slaves " 40 acres and a mule ", were revoked later that year by President Andrew Johnson.

In 1968 Nixon campaigned on a platform critical of the Johnson administration's handling of the war and promised to achieve " peace with honor ".

Custer denied a charge by the newspapers that Johnson had promised him a colonel's commission in return for his support, but Custer had written to Johnson some weeks before seeking such a commission.

In 2009 his successor, Boris Johnson, promised to reinstate the wider view, though also approving a development at Victoria Station which will obscure its right-hand corner.

At a press conference the day after he took office, Johnson promised a drastic cut in the number of National Military Establishment boards, committees, and commissions, and added, " To the limit the present law allows, I promise you there will be unification as rapidly as the efficiency of the service permits it.

Johnson went about this task reluctantly, as he had promised Truman he would hold the line on increased defense spending.

The American League owners promised to throw Johnson out of office if he stepped out of line again.

As Devine ( 1999 ) concludes, " Johnson was a giant figure in Scottish politics and is revered to this day as the greatest Scottish Secretary of the century .... In essence, Johnson was promised the powers of a benign dictator.

When Ford promised that he would be rewarded, Johnson hoped it would be with another doubling job, or maybe a small speaking role.

London mayor Boris Johnson promised that an extensive bicycle sharing system modelled on the Paris Vélib ' system would be introduced in London during his first term in office.

Goldberg stated that Johnson promised to give Goldberg full discretion in negotiating an end of the war in Vietnamese.

Once Goldberg resigned, however, he failed to get the support from Johnson that he had been promised.

Holland, along with all other senators from the former Confederate states ( except Lyndon B. Johnson, Estes Kefauver, and Albert Gore, Sr .), signed the " Southern Manifesto ," which condemned the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education and promised to resist its implementation.

After the North Korean attack began, Secretary Johnson promised the navy that it would have its new aircraft " supercarrier ".

Boris Johnson, the current Mayor of London, promised in the run-up to the mayoral election to rid the city of the controversial buses, and articulated buses on routes 18, 25, 38, 507 & 521 have already been decommissioned and replaced with double deckers.

Meanwhile, Janet's parents, Harry ( Manning Redwood ) and Emily ( Darlene Johnson ), are brought onto Marriage Maze and promised a prize if they offer a psychological assessment of Brad.

As a result, the Deputy Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson only promised asylum for Hương if necessary.

In 2005, Johnson was challenged in the Democratic primary by Frank Melton, a controversial TV station manager who promised to solve the city's crime problem in 90 days while giving few specific crime plans, making crime the central focus of the election.

He had been promised a large bloc of Quebec votes by Jean-Paul Cardinal, an organizer for Quebec premier Daniel Johnson, Sr, but these votes failed to materialize.

Senator Lyndon B. Johnson promised his commitment to the bill but others still stood in the way, such as Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia, Chairman of the powerful Rules Committee, and Thomas Pelly of Washington State who wanted the Alaskan waters to be open to use by Washingtonians.