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This 5 page report discusses the historical similarities and differences in the “crimes,” the proceedings and the trial. Also discussed is whether or not the impeachment process is inherently political. This also presents suggestions for the ultimate disposition of the Clinton impeachment proceedings. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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at a time when was at one of its most vulnerable and deeply divided periods -- the antagonistic and polarized era of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War. The
president, a Southerner (Tennessee), had alienated a large number of the Republicans in Congress. Of course, this was Andrew Johnson and the year was 1868. Now, another U.S.
President, originally from a southern state (Arkansas), has also alienated a large number of Republicans in Congress and has also faced impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives. He, of
course, is William Jefferson Clinton. Those characteristics -- southern, alienated from Republicans, and impeachment by the House - are where the similarities begin and end regarding the only two
presidential impeachment proceedings (so far) in the story of American government. Unlike the modern " scandal," the calls for President Andrew Johnsons impeachment came from deep concerns and divided opinions
over the most crucial issue of public policy -- what kind of nation is the United States? According to Foner (1999) the questions that Americans were struggling with included
issues such as: How should the country be reunited; who was entitled to the rights of American citizens; what should be the status of the emancipated slaves? There was no
concern over a woman the man had touched, in what way, and with what level of intimacy. Johnsons impeachment was the result of a nation defining itself after the
bloodiest battles it had ever faced on its own soil. Clintons impeachment is about a sex scandal and a prurient betrayal of his wife and their wedding vows.
When Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincolns vice president, assumed the Presidency, he quickly demonstrated that he was completely unqualified -- intellectually, morally, or politically
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