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not entirely because of that at all.
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He was acquitted,
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in part, because it was the spring of 1868.
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The Republican Party was about to hold its nominating convention
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for the 1868 election,
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and they were about to nominate, everybody knew it,
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if they could just convince him to do it,
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Ulysses Grant as the next presidential candidate.
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Grant had been Johnson's General of the Army
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and Johnson kept embarrassing Grant,
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over and over and over, until Grant resigned.
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And the Republicans were suddenly frightened politically in the spring of 1868,