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"Okay Abe but what are you committed to?"
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is what congressmen began to say.
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He was verbally willing to listen,
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but he really did not placate the Radicals.
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They had an impasse here, a big impasse.
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And note how deep the impasse is, it's constitutional.
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Who's going to run Reconstruction?
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Me, the president, or you the Congress?
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Well, the congressional leadership followed
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Lincoln's little Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill
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with what they called The Wade-Davis Manifesto,
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and they published it in national newspapers.