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Why did President Johnson risk violenting the Tenure of Office Act to fire his secretary of war?
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Why did President Johnson risk violenting the Tenure of Office Act to fire his secretary of war?

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It’s because his secretary of war was a radical republican, a group that repeatedly challenged his authority as president and also made him irrelevant due to their supermajority in congress
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The secretary was a strong supporter of Radical Reconstruction, which President Johnson vehemently opposed

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