Analysis: Stop Comparing Trump’s Impeachment Case to Johnson’s … or Nixon’s … or Clinton’s
The internet is awash in historical explainers and hot takes trying to make sense of our sudden constitutional crisis. Marshalled on behalf of a range of competing viewpoints, the arguments are sprinkled with references to Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton—the three presidents who faced impeachment proceedings before Donald Trump.
The 1868 impeachment of Johnson grew out of a power struggle between a reactionary president and the “Radical Republicans” who held power in Congress. Having assumed the White House after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, Johnson—a Southerner who never left the union—warred with Republicans over a series of bills dealing with civil rights for the newly freed slaves and the terms for readmitting secessionist states.
A century later, the case of Nixon and Watergate furnished a different set of answers. The House Judiciary Committee didn’t pass its articles of impeachment against Nixon until July 1974, a full two years after the failed burglary and bugging operation that began the unraveling of Nixon’s vast dirty tricks machine.
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