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One man’s bullet would force him into the presidency, and but for one man’s vote he would have been forced out.
Like the impeachment of President Clinton, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868 also ended in an acquittal.And like President Clinton, Johnson was a Democratic president who faced a Republican ....
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.... Johnson’s impeachment began.
“To say that they seized the opportunity was too strong,” says Michael Les Benedict, a history professor at Ohio State University and the author of The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson. “The president was in obvious defiance. He was daring them, it seemed, to impeach him. And if they didn’t, it would have given him a green light to basically dismantle the Reconstruction program that Congress had passed.”
Political Opportunism?
But others today see that impeachment as political opportunism. “Namely, Johnson was opposed to congressiona ....
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