As the first presidential impeachment trial was drawing to a close, newspaper titan Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune ran a bold headline: “CONVICTION ALMOST A CERTAINTY.” If by “certainty” the paper ...
Nearly 160 years ago, on February 24, 1868, Andrew Johnson made history as the first U.S. president to face impeachment. This watershed moment had been anticipated by political thinkers decades before ...
Andrew Paul Johnson, whom President Donald Trump pardoned for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing two children ...