{"id":2530,"date":"1865-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1865-04-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2530"},"modified":"1865-04-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1865-04-15T00:00:00","slug":"14151865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1865\/04\/15\/14151865\/","title":{"rendered":"4\/15\/1865"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Andrew Johnson (April 15, 1865-March 4, 1869). Democratic. Andrew Johnson became president when President [Abraham] Lincoln was assassinated. As president in charge of the Reconstruction, Johnson drafted conciliatory policies towards the South in a hurry to reincorporate former states of the Confederacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cU.S. Presidents,\u201d TotallyHistory.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Andrew Johnson (April 15, 1865-March 4, 1869). Democratic. Andrew Johnson became president when President [Abraham] Lincoln was assassinated. As president in charge of the Reconstruction, Johnson drafted conciliatory policies towards the South in a hurry to reincorporate former states of the Confederacy.\u201d \u201cU.S. Presidents,\u201d TotallyHistory.com [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1865\/04\/15\/14151865\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 4\/15\/1865<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1955,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1963\/11\/22\/29111221963\/","url_meta":{"origin":2530,"position":0},"title":"11\/22\/1963","author":"AmarkData","date":"November 22, 1963","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Lyndon B. 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