WI: Johnson Assassinated, Lincoln Survives?

Johnson is pretty much universally regarded as an incompetent racist scumbag who helped to destroy any chance of Reconstruction's success. What if Booth was foiled in his attempt (perhaps by having Lincoln's bodyguard be remotely competent) but Atzerodt has more nerve, and kills the Vice-President. What would the effects be?
 
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As this was the first assassination on one of the top offices of state, maybe more security will be put in place to protect anyone in the political sphere rather then just the President with a few men.

Maybe with Abraham Lincoln looking frail, congress might push for him to nominate a Vice President, bringing the OTL Twenty-fifth Amendment, in earlier as the Fourteenth Amendment.
Maybe nominating a strong military figure like Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois or Major General Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts, or maybe politically having Former Senator Daniel Dickinson of New York or 29th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Schuyler Colfax.
 
Indefinetly don't see hem putting a military man in right away. Especially as they would still want them as part of the military.
 
Indefinetly don't see hem putting a military man in right away. Especially as they would still want them as part of the military.

The war has ended and what better person to sit in the Senate then a military man, who will knock the heads together of all the senators who don't agree with the Presidents terms?
 
The war has ended and what better person to sit in the Senate then a military man, who will knock the heads together of all the senators who don't agree with the Presidents terms?

Why not just leave Senator Foster as heir-apparent? Or if he is considered inadequate, there are over fifty other Senators to choose from.
 
Why not just leave Senator Foster as heir-apparent? Or if he is considered inadequate, there are over fifty other Senators to choose from.

There is nothing wrong with Lafayette S. Foster or Benjamin Wade, I am just trying to see if there could be a changed to History if Andrew Johnson was assassinated and Abraham Lincoln survived.

I was also thinking, would the office and duty of Vice President change, in light of Johnson's death?
 
Technically, the war was not over. Joe was still in the field negotiating with Sherman, and Kirby Smith was out west. Lincoln may have accepted the the original terms, slightly modified. I don't think he would allow a radical like Wade to be VP. Reconstruction would have been less chaotic
 
There is nothing wrong with Lafayette S. Foster or Benjamin Wade, I am just trying to see if there could be a changed to History if Andrew Johnson was assassinated and Abraham Lincoln survived.

I was also thinking, would the office and duty of Vice President change, in light of Johnson's death?

Doubt it. After all, OTL they left the succession laws unchanged right through Johnson's administration, and changed them only when the deadlock after Garfield's death made the case for change unanswerable.
 
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