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 ...

Inspectors general are federal government investigators embedded in government agencies to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse ...

Coupled with other statements by Trump, Meacham says Trump “now ranks with Andrew Johnson as perhaps the most ... published in May — an account of Johnson’s impeachment trial called “The Impeachers.” ...

The depositions came fast and furious during the trial, and they all had to ... just the second American president to be impeached, following Andrew Johnson in 1868. He was acquitted by the ...

Subsequently, there have been several attempts to begin impeachment proceedings against particular justices, but none has ever prevailed in the House. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the ...

Why such tedious recriminations over adoption of Senate procedures that were approved by a 100–0 vote the last time there was an impeachment trial? Why all the kvetching over whether witnesses ...

Challenges: Andrew Johnson had to navigate the reunification and reconstruction of the Union while addressing issues such as African-American civil rights. He failed badly, to the extent that his ...

Chervinsky When the 17th president was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors in 1868, the wild trial nearly reignited the Civil War Lorraine Boissoneault The biggest show in Washington 150 years ...