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Sat Jan 23 06:00:02 EST 2021
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Slept from eleven-thirty to seven-thirty without waking.
Mostly sunny, with a high near 28.
West northwest wind 5 to 7 mph.
To do
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- Order groceries
5–7 PM.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/trump-worst-president-history/617730/
> The next great presidential failure in U.S. history involved the management of the victory over the South. Enter the third of the three men who eclipsed Harding: Andrew Johnson. Lincoln had picked Johnson as his running mate in 1864 to forge a unity ticket for what he expected to be a tough reelection bid. A pro-Union Democrat, Johnson had been the sole southern senator in 1861 not to leave Congress when his state seceded.
> But Johnson’s fidelity to Lincoln and to the nation ended with Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865. While Lincoln had not left detailed plans for how to “bind up the nation’s wounds” after the war, Johnson certainly violated the spirit of what Lincoln had envisioned. An unrepentant white supremacist, he opposed efforts to give freedmen the vote, and when Congress did so over his objections, Johnson impeded their enjoyment of that right. He wanted slavery by another name in the South, undermining the broad consensus in the victorious North. “What he had in mind all along for the south,” as his biographer Annette Gordon-Reed wrote, “was a restoration rather than reconstruction.”
> Johnson used his pulpit to bully those who believed in equal rights for formerly enslaved people and to encourage a culture of grievance in the South, spreading myths about why the Civil War had occurred in the first place. Many people are responsible for the toxic views and policies that have so long denied Black Americans basic human rights, but Andrew Johnson was the first to use the office of the presidency to give that project national legitimacy and federal support.
Watched The Rhythm section.
Pretty good revenge, espionage, action flick.
Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 1/4, dairy 2/2, meat 0/3, nuts 0/0.5
Breakfast: pinapple
Brunch: macaroni and cheese with avocado
Afternoon snack: potato chips
Dinner: cookies
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