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#354 – Jeremi Suri: American Civil War

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Lincoln's Succession Plan Was Not Good Planning

Lincoln is considered to be one of the great presidents in the history of the United States. Are there ways that he failed? Is there things he could have done better? So he failed in the ways that most great leaders fail, which is that he had a terrible succession plan. His vice president, who I spend a lot of time on in the book, Andrew Johnson, was probably our worst president ever.

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