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Why did President Johnson deviate his original plan of punishing southerners by making it difficult to reenter the union?

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This is a highly contested question, but most believed that he became far more lenient with the South because of a strong racist attitude, and the fact that many rich Southern planters "pleaded" for mercy. 
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