What if Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin, had become president instead of Andrew Johnson? Could Reconstruction—and racial equality—have taken a different path? Presidential historian Jon Meacham joins Andrew Roberts on Secrets of Statecraft to explore the historical counterfactual and more.
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