Talk:President of the United States (Two Americas)

Andrew Johnson
If the war had turned sour, and did not look to be about over, would Lincoln have chosen Johnson, a loyal "War Democrat" he had appointed as military governor of Tennessee, as his vice president? I think he would have stuck with Hamlin. But then, if he had chosen Johnson, and Booth had assasinated him even in the midst of the war, Johnson as president may have indeed been the cause of a prolonged war! Hamlin, on the other hand, would have been brutal, for he was a radical. If Lincoln was not assassinated, though, it would probably not have mattered which man was vice president. Lincoln was determined that HE was going to be the man in charge when the confederacy was stopped.SouthWriter 06:16, February 20, 2010 (UTC)