Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's vice-President, sympathized with the south. The republican Congress was upset that Johnson refused to work with Congress to "reconstruct" the nation. Instead, Johnson tried to do it all himself. As a result, he was impeached later in his term.
President John Tyler's nickname was the "Accidental President" or "His Accidency". He received this nickname because he was the first president to hold the office without being elected to it. William Henry Harrison died shortly after taking office and Tyler was his vice president.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. When he died in April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany, he was succeeded by the Vice President, Harry S Truman.
Four months before President Aberham Lincoln's inauguration, five states seceded from the Union-the rest of the Confederacy shortly thereafter. By the time he took office, The Civil War was only weeks away.
It would seem that Abraham Lincoln's most embarrassing moment occurred when southern states seceded from the Union shortly after his election as president. The Civil War ensued and cost the lives of over 600,000 Americans.
Harry Truman's proactive civil rights policy in 1946 recognized that the time was right. Very shortly after this time, full integration of the military took place.
The Eternal Flame was installed at the gravesite of President John F. Kennedy in Arlington National Cemetery on November 24, 1963, shortly after his assassination.
That would be Gerald Ford due to the attempt on President Reagan was well after he took office. Ford had not been in office long after Nixon had resigned.
Abraham Lincoln was in Ford's Theater when he was assassinated. President Reagan was also in Ford's Theater shortly before John Hinkley's assassination attempt on him.
The assassination of Lincoln. His Vice-President Andrew Johnson of Tennessee had very different ideas about the treatment of ex-Confederates.
Here is the "answer Abraham Lincoln was the first president to die of assassination. He was shot in the back of his head by John Wilkes Booth"he was embalmed shortly after the night of the fatal shot. So no chance he was buried alive.
Your thinking of Julius Caesar. He was made Dictator for Life shortly before his assassination.
It was renamed shortly after JFK's assassination, to honor him.
The Cold War, then Vietnam.
Lee Harvey Oswald is widely believed to have killed the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Oswald was arrested shortly after the assassination but was himself killed by Jack Ruby two days later, before his trial could take place.
Yes, Latvia has had a president since 1922, shortly after its independence from Russia in 1918. Latvia had no president when it was part of the Soviet Union, but re-established the position of president in 1993 shortly after it re-declared independence in 1991.
Shortly after World War 2, the U.S and NATO deployed to resolve the conflict in Korea. This led to the Korean War between NATO and North Korea + China + Soviet Union.
The Korean War ,