Senate historian Betty Koed told the story of the sensationalized 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This text was ...

Tuesday marked the beginning of the Senate impeachment trial that will determine whether ... removal from office by way of impeachment; Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1998 and now Mr ...

Fox Nation's new documentary "The First Impeachment," re-examines the history of the nation's seminal experience with a Constitutional crisis of this magnitude, when President Andrew Johnson faced ...

The impeachment trial was almost over, and Sen. James Grimes was tormented with doubt. The senator from Iowa couldn’t stand Andrew Johnson, the belligerent, racist president on trial before the ...

Andrew Johnson faced overwhelming opposition ... But he was still able, just barely, to survive a Senate impeachment trial. Johnson was a Southerner and a Democrat, but he stayed on the Union ...

This was, after all, the first impeachment of a president ... “The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation.” That first day, Chase’s daughter, Kate Chase ...

Tickets to the Johnson impeachment trial were color-coded to indicate ... 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson for having committed “high crimes and misdemeanors.” ...

On March 5, 1868, the first day of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, the following item appeared on the front page of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The sheer poetry of this news item is ...

Perhaps history—in this case, the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson—offers the most instructive ... Those who led the 1868 impeachment and trial of Johnson—the first of a president in American ...

For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson. Now, Johnson faced trial before the U. S. Senate. If convicted ...

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Andrew Johnson faced overwhelming opposition ... But he was still able, just barely, to survive a Senate impeachment trial. Johnson was a Southerner and a Democrat, but he stayed on the Union ...