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From Office In Defiance:
Radical Republicans also ousted the pro-Johnson chairman of the National Committee, Henry Raymond, in the bitter feuding that went on for control of the party. And in the mid-term elections, the congressional wing of the party won the day by increasing Republican majorities in every northern state. Early in 1867 the uncompromising struggle between Johnson and the Radical Republicans reached its final phase when Johnson removed his secretary of war from office in defiance of the Tenure of Office Act (q.v.) which Congress had passed over the president's veto. Johnson was then impeached by the House and on his trial in the Senate he won acquittal by just one vote.In May 1898 he resigned his secretaryship to become lieutenant colonel (under his friend, the future Gen; Leonard Wood) of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry, popularly known as the Rough Riders (q.v.). Partly through his daring in battle and partly through his defiance of the War Office in his fight to get his men moved out of a fever-ridden area after the fighter was over, he became the outstanding figure of c war. When "Mr. Dooley" (Finley Peter Dunne) said that his book on The Rough Riders (1899) ought to have been called "Alone in Cubia," Roosevelt laughed as hard as anybody.
August 1, 1291, is a date as familiar to every Swiss child as is July 4,1776, to every American child. On that date, the three forest cantons of Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden, surrounding the Lake of the Four Forest Cantons (Vierwaldstattersee), called for tourist ease the Lake of Lucerne, signed the Everlasting Pact that gave birth to the Swiss Confederation. The fourth canton, Lucerne, joined the Confederation forty years later. Meanwhile, in 1307, three patriots, one each from the three original cantons, met in a clearing above the lake and swore the famous Riitli Oath: "Thus shall we three people stand together for ' defense and defiance in life and death!" The defense and defiance were against Habsburg tyranny.
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