Through all the years of American history only two presidents have been impeached. The two who were impeached were Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson. Bill Clinton was elected president in November 3, 1992 after serving as Governor of Arkansas. Andrew Johnson was elected president in April 15, 1865 after Lincoln’s assassination. The two impeachments were different in many ways, however Bill Clintons was very unpopular to the public.
Andrew Johnson took office shortly after the Civil War. He was the 17th president of the United States. Throughout Johnson’s presidency his power and influence steadily declined. Two things that really made people upset were Johnson’s veto on the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill and his veto on the Civil Rights Bill. Both bills
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Before Clinton was elected President he had an encounter with Paula Jones in a hotel room. After Clinton took office Paula Jones then sued Clinton for sexual harassment. A short time later Monica Lewinsky began her intern at the White House. Clinton and Lewinsky began a sexual relationship. Judge Kenneth Starr was the investigator of Whitewater. President Clinton denied any sexual relations with Lewinsky. On October 8, 1998, the House would vote to have an impeachment and won. Clinton was charged with perjury and obstruction to justice. Bill Clinton would end up not getting kicked out of office by senate.
The impeachments of Clinton and Johnson were in some ways similar but also very different. Both cases had to do with their presidency terms. Johnson would be tried for violating an Act while Clinton was tried for sexual relations. Another similarity was that both of their trials were held in senate. In order for them to be removed a 2/3 vote was required and neither one achieved it.
I personally think that both Clinton and Johnson should have been fully impeached. They did things that a President should never do. I believe that both Clinton and Johnson should have been removed from office. Presidents should never have sexual relations with co-workers or violate
When Johnson took over the Presidency following the assassination of Kennedy, he was determined to push through the Great Society agenda. President Johnson used the recent death as a reason to quickly enact laws for social reform in memory of Kennedy. Despite Republican opposition, Johnson was able to get the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 passed through congress,
On August 17, 1998, exactly one year after making the statement above, President Bill Clinton prepared to deliver a speech concerning a scandal that had gripped the nation for months. It is needless to say that this was an important moment during the Clinton administration. After accusations of sexual harassment, Clinton addressed the nation and admitted to having a relationship with Monica Lewinsky. In this critical speech Clinton set out to admit to wrong-doings, provide a few reasons for his action, and ultimately persuade the audience into moving on and forgetting the scandal. This essay will break down his speech into sections and examine the most and least effective strategies that Clinton employed and how well he executed those strategies. This is an interesting speech given under rare circumstances. Not since Watergate had an American president been under such harsh moral criticism from the public. By looking critically at this speech we are able to gain valuable insight into Clinton's motives.
...ights for African Americans as well as a political rights for the people, his goal was to abolish slavery and felt that “all men created equally” should uphold for everybody, everybody that was man at least. Johnson the president, in the beginning proved to be loyal to his radicals by chastising the confederacy making sure there would be repercussions for their actions. Also his amnesty plan to reinstate the south states was far harsher than that of Lincoln's. Johnson’s sanctions deprived confederacy officers, people in high power, and anyone who owned valuable assets could be subject to confiscation. The purpose was to shift political power in south and reward it to freed blacks and white southerners who stayed neutral during the war. Hahn states in his article that, “During reconstruction, black men held political offices in every state of the former confederacy”
As President, Johnson decided to follow Lincolns plans by granting amnesty to almost all former confederates; establishing a Provisional government; and ratifying the thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery. However, Johnson was not the same man as Lincoln for he was quite unpopular, especially with Congress. As the south was in a transitional period, its politics were changing as well. First, the Reconstruction Act allowed blacks to v...
Only three times in the 226 year history of the office of the President of the United States has the idea of impeachment reared its head. Only twice has a president been impeached, and only one president has been driven out of office due to possible high crimes and misdemeanors. Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton both were impeached by the House of Representatives, and faced trial in the Senate. Both presidents were acquitted of their supposed transgressions, and were allowed to remain in office. Richard Nixon, despite never experiencing impeachment, vacated his office due to increasing pressure to resign and spare the Senate from going through the process due to his obvious guilt. Nixon was actually in violation of his duties as President, but Clinton and Johnson were impeached by political rivals. Nixon’s actions were considered in such grave violation of the Constitution, that he did not keep his office, whereas Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton stayed.
I believe that since Watergate was a huge scandal, and Nixon was in the wrong for certain things dealing with it, that he should have been impeached. Nixon broke the law while handling with this scandal which is something I think a president should be impeached for. In the end, Nixon got impeached because of the articles posted by the House of Representatives. These articles stated what Nixon did that broke the law and they gave three reasons which were: obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. This happened after the tapes that Nixon was trying to hide were revealed. One of the tapes called, “smoking gun,” reavealed evidence that Nixon did take part in covering up Watergate. On this tape, it showed that Nixon had ordered
Bill Clinton was charged with 2 crimes, perjury and obstruction of justice. When officals become president, they take an oath to never commint "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors". Perjury is a high crime and president Bill Clinton commited that. President Bill Clinton was having an affair with one of the interns that worked at the white house. The intern was talking to coworker Linda Tipp, which she then started recording conversations they were having about the affair. A lawyer then sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment. The intern then said she didnt have any kind of relationship with the president. Linda Tipp brought the recorded conversations to Kenneth Starrs office and wore a wire on the intern. The intern then
Throughout Clinton’s presidency he was involved in many different scandals, one of his biggest scandals and most well known would be the Whitewater scandal. The scandal started in 1978 over a land purchase made by the Clinton’s. The scandal itself lasted for almost 7 years and it ended with the impeachment of Bill Clinton.It started when the Clinton’s
During his campaign, rumors and lawsuits regarding sexual affairs began to make Americans question his character, but Clinton was able to get the rumors under control and obtain his nickname “The Comeback Kid” (Kunhardt, Kunhardt, & Kunhardt, 1999, p. 430-433). He won the presidential election in 1993 by a large amount and was the first president of the baby boomer era. Clinton had tremendous potential in office, but issues about his personal life kept reappearing in cases such as Jones v. Clinton. According to Daniel Cohen (2000), these issues did not stop him from winning his second term election by an even bigger margin than his first (p.10). Though, in 1998, the Lewinsky scandal broke, a scandal that changed how Americans thought and talked about their political leaders forever. Most Americans believe this scandal was the sole cause of Clinton’s impeachment; however it might have been his corrupt moral compass that ultimately led to his removal from
Andrew Johnson served as the 17th President of the United States. The Presidential term he served was 1865-1869. Prior to his term, Abraham Lincoln served as President. Abraham Lincoln had a plan of reconstruction prior to his assassination. When Andrew Johnson was in office, he planned on carrying out Lincoln’s proposal. The policy was not very popular, particularly for the so-called Radical Republicans in congress, however. Neither Andrew Johnson nor the Republicans were willing to compromise, therefore, there were issues. This lead to Johnson breaching the Tenure of Office Act by removing Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, from the cabinet. “Both Lincoln and Johnson had experienced problems with Stanton, an ally of the Radicals in Congress. Stanton's removal, therefore, was not only a political decision made to relieve the discord between the President and his cabinet, but a t...
President Clinton did have many great accomplishments during his first term but also did have some failures. Many political and personal scandals arose during his first term as the President. One instance involved the Whitewater River Project in Arkansas where it was said that the Clinton’s had illegal relations with a failed savings and loan in which they had profited off of. The other included a civil suit that involved Clinton sexually harassing a state employee Paula Corbin Jones while he was the Governor of Arkansas. Investigations of the above allegations lead to the knowledge of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Clinton was said to have had sexually relations with Lewinsky. Clinton denied these allegations and even appeared in front of the
Bill Clinton was hit with perjury and obstruction of justice charges for lying to Congress about having an affair with a White House staffer. He was later cleared and, as a result of the publicity surrounding the case, was the first non-Brazilian to be awarded the highly coveted Brazil Macho Man of the Year
He served as President from 1993-2001. During the time of his presidency America saw many changes. Some changes were good and some changes were bad. In 1994 NAFTA was passed which allowed free trade between Mexico, the United States and Canada. One change that shocked the American people was a change of morals. On the days of November 1995 Clinton began an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 21-year-old unpaid intern (History Staff 2). In January 1998 the Monica Lewinsky scandal begins. The scandal begins when President Clinton says he did not have an affair with her. That statement turns out to be a lie. Clinton is put on trial for the charge of prudery. On December 11, 1999 the House impeaches President Clinton (History 2). Five weeks later the senate votes on removing Clinton from office, but the vote falls in favor of Clinton and he remains in office until the end of his presidency. Clinton gets to stay president after lying to the American people and having an affair in the white house and the consequences are the loss of morals for the American people which had been held to a high standard up until that
In 1998 President Bill Clinton was sent to impeachment, “charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice.” In November 1995, Clinton started an affair with Lewinsky when she was only 21 years old. Accordingly, Clinton and Lewinsky had about a dozen sexual encounters in the White House. Nothing would of come to light if it wasn’t for Linda Tripp. She was the one who brought this issue to public and started secretly recording conversations with Lewinsky, while Lewinsky gave Tripp details about the affair. Likewise, the president was sent to jury and said that “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.” On February 12, 1999 President Clinton was founded guilty on both accusations and was removed as president. After the trial ended, President Clinton said that he was profoundly sorry. In few words he lost his job and reputation by lying over the accusation of
Though he was impeached because of his decision making, he was still sworn in to be president. Clinton journeyed off to college at Georgetown, Oxford University, then switched to Yale to study law. He was very well educated yet, he still made awful decisions in some aspects of his life. Knowledge is not something that just comes from being educated. Gaining knowledge about particular subjects can be learned in schooling yes, but everyone needs a bit of common sense. Sleeping with another women inside of the White House probably has to be one of the most ignorant moves any person can make. Even with the education of three of the world’s most prestigious universities, Clinton did not acquire the knowledge needed to resist temptation of another women while being married. Most people would agree that he was not the best president regardless of the affair but that is a whole different topic. Even with all of the schooling in the world, knowledge is something that people have to get on their