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35a. Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, was pro-slavery throughout his career in the Senate and as the Military Governor of Tennessee. White House. In 1864, Republican Abraham Lincoln chose Andrew Johnson, a Democratic senator from Tennessee, as his Vice Presidential candidate. Lincoln was looking for Southern support. He hoped that by selecting Johnson he would appeal to Southerners who never wanted to leave the Union. Johnson, like Lincoln, had grown up in poverty. He did not learn to write until he was 20 years old.
Best Answer: President Lyndon Johnson was courting vote of minority Americans for the presidential elections. He promised to give housing, money and food to minorities without their having to work for those things. He declared it was a war on poverty. In actuality, it increased the poverty of minorities as the black middle class and other minority middle classes quit working when they could get all they needed for free from the government.