Translations:Abraham Lincoln/27/en

When Johnson openly defied another of these laws by removing from office his secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, who had been plotting with the Radicals against him, they voted articles of impeachment against him and he missed being convicted by only one vote. After Johnson’s term was finished, a more compliant president was elected—Gen. Ulysses S. Grant—who allowed the Radicals to control the executive branch.