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Show 'X-M-XX-M-;'X-l-X-ZX':'X-M-?X-X-MX-X-X'M-M-MI.M.;.x.M.X' Put Personality Into Tokens of Friendship There's always Just ono more story about any of America's former "Presidents. "Presi-dents. This time there Is another about Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's tempestuous tem-pestuous successor. Johnson, while governor of Tennessee, Tennes-see, once resumed his vocational implements. im-plements. He had formed a strong friendship In the Tennessee legislature legisla-ture for W. W. Pepper of Springfield, a stanch Whig, and once a blL-eksiuith. Despite their irreconcilable political creeds the personal relations of Johnson John-son and Pepper were extremely cordial. cor-dial. Pepper became a judge In 1S54, and after a visit to Johnson, then governor, gov-ernor, set about fashioning a shovel, which he sent with a note explaining it was intended as a memento of a friendship proof against all political differences. Johnson, to show his appreciation, took up his scissors and needle and made a handsome beaver cloth coat which he sent to Pepper. It was a splendid piece of workmanship, prob-l ably the las-t of that kind of work Johnson ever did, and exists to this day. |