Radio Podcast: High Crimes And Misdemeanors, Duration: 19:29

Johnson Impeachment & the End of His Presidency

Radio Podcast: High Crimes And Misdemeanors, Duration: 19:29

10/3/2019

Radio Podcast

National Public Radio (NPR) presents a 2019 radio segment, featured on Throughline, that provides a discussion of what it means for a president to be impeached and how the first impeachment took place with President Andrew Johnson (D-TN)--who became the 17th President of the United States after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in April of 1865. Themes include: the state of nation upon Johnson's acquisition of the presidency, how Johnson handled Reconstruction, and what led to his impeachment from the presidency.

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