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Andrew Johnson Drunk at Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Johnson did not feel well before the inauguration, so he downed three glasses of “medicinal” whiskey before entering the Senate chamber. As Johnson walked into the chamber, he was leaning on Hannibal Hamlin’s arm and appeared to be unsteady. Abraham Lincoln’s new vice-president was drunk on inauguration day.
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Abraham Lincoln was now fifty-six years old. At six feet and four inches tall, Lincoln often wore clothes that did not fit just right, he was described as being gawky or awkward. Lincoln had a tenor, falsetto-like voice, and he’d had only one year of formal education. Nothing about Abraham Lincoln would lead people to think this man was a powerful speaker.