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  President Andrew Johnson vetoed citizenship for slaves

  Posted: March 27th, 2010, 12:00am MSK by Bernard Hibbitts

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  On March 27, 1866, President Andrew Johnson vetoed a civil rights bill that would later become the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, conferring full US citizenship on all slaves. Read President Johnson's veto letter, transmitted to the US Senate.