Very respectfully, yours,
ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, D.C., _February 5, 1868_.
The PRESIDENT.
SIR: Your note of this date was handed to me this evening. My
recollection of the conversation at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the
14th of January, corresponds with your statement of it in the letter of
the 31st ultimo[45] in the published correspondence.
The three points specified in that letter, giving your recollection of
the conversation, are correctly stated.
Very respectfully,
GIDEON WELLES.
[Footnote 45: See pp. 615-618.]
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, _February 6, 1868_.
The PRESIDENT.
SIR: I have received your note of the 5th instant, calling my attention
to the correspondence between yourself and General Grant as published in
the Chronicle of yesterday, especially to that part of it which relates
to what occurred at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the 14th ultimo, and
requesting me to state what was said in the conversation referred to.
I can not undertake to state the precise language used, but I have no
hesitation in saying that your account of that conversation as given in
your letter to General Grant under date of the 31st ultimo[45]
substantially and in all important particulars accords with my
recollection of it.
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