a great contrast with ligon who -- lincolny chamblee who was famously shambly. i think people would have noticed if he had been inebriated on other public occasions. brian: he becomes president. what is the united states of america like at that point and what problems does he face? david: we are still winding up the war. consideratell a confederate army. lee has surrendered just days before. he has to make some peace. there is another group in texas that takes a little longer to surrender and give up their arms. struggles with you grant -- ulysses grant over the treatment of confederates, because grant gave his word that the soldiers would not be punished for their role in the war if they surrendered. as i said, johnson did not want to do that. he did want to hang some of them. grant succeeded with that. the first order of business was what to do with the states. we had no state governments down there. the south was occupied. an occupiedupied -- hostile territory. congress was not in session. this was an era that congress only sat four or five months a year. beg