ᐅ I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. – Andrew Johnson | QuotesTrue.com

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I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

Andrew Johnson

Inaugural Address. Sunday Morning Chronicle, Washington, www.gutenberg.org. April 16, 1865.

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