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| [[File:johnsonbanquet.jpg|thumb|Photograph of [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Andrew Johnson]] at a banquet in his honor during the Swing Around the Circle speaking tour. Johnson appears seated in the center, with [[Commanding General of the United States Army|General]] [[Ulysses S. Grant]] to his left and Secretary of the Navy [[Gideon Welles]] to his right]]{{Andrew Johnson series}} | [[File:johnsonbanquet.jpg|thumb|Photograph of [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Andrew Johnson]] at a banquet in his honor during the Swing Around the Circle speaking tour. Johnson appears seated in the center, with [[Commanding General of the United States Army|General]] [[Ulysses S. Grant]] to his left and Secretary of the Navy [[Gideon Welles]] to his right]]{{Andrew Johnson series}} |
| '''Swing Around the Circle''' is the nickname for a speaking campaign undertaken by [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Andrew Johnson]] between August 27 and September 15, 1866, in which he tried to gain support for his obstructionist [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] policies and for his preferred candidates (mostly [[United States Democratic Party|Democrats]]) in the forthcoming [[United States House of Representatives elections, 1866|midterm Congressional elections]]. The tour's nickname came from the route that the campaign took: "[[Washington, D.C.]], to [[New York]], west to [[Chicago]], south to St. Louis, and east through the Ohio River valley back to the nation's capital". | '''Swing Around the Circle''' is the nickname for a speaking campaign undertaken by [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Andrew Johnson]] between August 27 and September 15, 1866, in which he tried to gain support for his obstructionist [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] policies and for his preferred candidates (mostly [[United States Democratic Party|Democrats]]) in the forthcoming [[United States House of Representatives elections, 1866|midterm Congressional elections]]. The tour's nickname came from the route that the campaign took: "[[Washington, D.C.]], to [[New York City|New York]], west to [[Chicago]], south to St. Louis, and east through the Ohio River valley back to the nation's capital". |
| Johnson undertook the speaking tour in the face of increasing opposition in the [[Northern United States]] and in Washington to his lenient form of Reconstruction in the [[Southern United States]], which had led the Southern states largely to revert to the social system that had predominated before the [[American Civil War]]. Although he believed he could regain the trust of moderate Northern [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] by exploiting tensions between them and their [[Radical Republicans|Radical]] counterparts on the tour, Johnson only alienated them more. This caused a supporter of Johnson to say of the tour that it would have been better "had it never been made."{{sfnp|Foner|2002|pp=264–265}} Critics simultaneously derided the tour as boring and irrelevant and as a platform for showcasing Johnson's weaknesses: "ill-tempered, illiterate, semi-insane, and thoroughly undignified."<ref name=":3" /> But the tour eventually became the centerpiece of the [[Articles of impeachment adopted against Andrew Johnson#Article ten|tenth article of impeachment against Johnson]]. | Johnson undertook the speaking tour in the face of increasing opposition in the [[Northern United States]] and in Washington to his lenient form of Reconstruction in the [[Southern United States]], which had led the Southern states largely to revert to the social system that had predominated before the [[American Civil War]]. Although he believed he could regain the trust of moderate Northern [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] by exploiting tensions between them and their [[Radical Republicans|Radical]] counterparts on the tour, Johnson only alienated them more. This caused a supporter of Johnson to say of the tour that it would have been better "had it never been made."{{sfnp|Foner|2002|pp=264–265}} Critics simultaneously derided the tour as boring and irrelevant and as a platform for showcasing Johnson's weaknesses: "ill-tempered, illiterate, semi-insane, and thoroughly undignified."<ref name=":3" /> But the tour eventually became the centerpiece of the [[Articles of impeachment adopted against Andrew Johnson#Article ten|tenth article of impeachment against Johnson]]. |
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