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and they absolutely called a halt to the whole process.
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Here were all these people from the South coming to take the--
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not loyalty oaths--but the Oath of Office into the U.S. Congress,
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and they were stopped, some of them physically at the door,
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and told to go home.
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And the Republican Party now began to try to wrest control,
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and they did wrest control of Reconstruction away from Andrew Johnson.
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And from that day forward you had the beginnings of a growing
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Titanic constitutional political struggle between president and Congress--
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they are not of the same party, to say the least--
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that will result in Andrew Johnson's impeachment.
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Now, to the Radicals for a moment.