Andrew Johnson, President of the United States

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Excerpt from Andrew Johnson, President of the United States: Reminiscences of His Private Life and CharacterDuring the administration of mr. Lincoln, mr. Neill, my immediate predecessor as secretary of the president to Sign land patents, was removed from the Interior Department to the' room occupied by the pri vate secretaries of the president in the Executive Mans sion - the White-house of popular parlance. On my appointment by mr. Johnson, and confirmation by the senate, I found myself assigned to duty in the room adjoining the president's reception room. Mr. Robert johnson, the president's eldest son, and Officially his private secretary, col. Robert morrow, col. Ken. Long, and/col. Wright rives, assistants, having desks in the same room, and col. Moore, the confidential sec retary of his excellency and the bearer of messages to congress, in the library, on the opposite side of the re ception room, the three rooms connected with facing doors, and the president's desk and table between. I am particular to note the relationship of these rooms, for in so doing I indicate the relationship I stood to the president, and the point of view from which I made the observations upon which I base the following re marks about the private life and character of mr. Johnson during the last two and a half years of his term of office.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.