appointed the wartime Governor of Tennessee

而又一次在内战中被林肯任命为
by Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the war.

田纳西州战时州长
He'd held every level of office.

他能驾驭任何级别的官职
He'd never been anti-slavery.

他从未反对过奴隶制度
He saw the end of slavery as a misfortune for the South,

他将蓄奴制的终结视作南方的不幸
something that had to be accepted as a verdict of war.

但他却无力改变这一战争的裁定
But Johnson had one essential slogan for his approach to Reconstruction,

约翰逊在其重建计划中有一句精辟的口号
and if you can remember that slogan

如果你能记住那个口号
you in essence have his point of view:

你就掌握了其观点精髓之所在
the Constitution as it is and the Union as it was.

宪法如今联邦如昔
The Constitution as it is and the Union as it was.

宪法如今联邦如昔
Don't revise the Constitution.

不要修改宪法