President Johnson's main objection to an 1866 bill extending the life and extending the powers of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill was that ... ?

D uring the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, Congress enacted two major pieces of legislation, the first to create the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, or Freedmen's Bureau, and the second (getting past two presidential vetoes) to sustain the Freedmen's Bureau