"I have known Andy for many years... he made a bad slip the other day, but you need not be scared. Andy ain't a drunkard."
— Andrew Johnson

January 1, 1970

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Abraham Lincoln, on Johnson's infamous speech on the day of his inauguration as Vice-President, as quoted in Hannibal Hamlin: Lincoln's First Vice President (1969) by H. Draper Hunt.