Comey, Trump, and Andrew Johnson

In a post titled James Comey Says Donald Trump Is Not the Worst U.S. President Ever , Newsweek includes text:Comey said: “I would rate him [Trump]… one or two, probably one. We have had worse presidents. Andrew Johnson was the president after Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson was a raving racist and drunk and terrible person, so I think he was worse.”As to Andrew Johnson being a "raving racist," see the 2013 post in the New York Times titled When Andrew Johnson Freed His Slaves . Note also that the last U.S. President to have held a slave in his lifetime was U.S. Grant, not Andrew Johnson. As to a patent connection, note "who" defended Andrew Johnson during the impeachment trial: Benjamin R. Curtis, one of two Supreme Court Justices who dissented in the Dred Scott decision and his brother George Ticknor Curtis, one of the top patent lawyers of the time. [Among other distinctions, Benjamin Curtis was the first Supreme Court…

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