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TIL When being sworn in as Vice President, Andrew Johnson gave a drunken address to Congress while Lincoln watched sadly. Afterwards he hid from ridicule at a friends house and Lincoln assured the public he wasn’t a “drunkard”. A month later Lincoln was assassinated and he became President.

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