Andrew Johnson

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  5/3/2020
  

  Trump and Lincoln Are Opposite Kinds of Presidents

  When historians rank the worst presidents in American history, indecision and inaction in the face of crisis are common attributes. Until now, most of the worst served before or after the Civil War.

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• 12/15/19
  

  Edmund G. Ross Was a Profile in Impeachment Corruption, not Courage

  by David O. Stewart

  The current impeachment proceedings have revived the historical error of proclaiming Kansas Senator Edmund G. Ross a hero for providing the vote that saved President Andrew Johnson’s job after the April 1868 impeachment trial.   

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• SOURCE: Slate
  12/9/19
  

  Kate Shaw: Andrew Johnson Was Impeached for Being a Racist Demagogue

  An interview with Kate Shaw, a professor of law at Cardozo Law School and co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  November 29, 2019
  

  Donald Trump, Meet Your Precursor

  by Manisha Sinha

  Andrew Johnson pioneered the recalcitrant racism and impeachment-worthy subterfuge the president is fond of.

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• SOURCE: AP
  10/12/19
  

  Historians Jon Meacham, Mark Summers, Keri Leigh Merritt, Michael Ross, Brenda Wineapple, and Benjamin Railton Featured in Article on Andrew Johnson and Impeachment

  As the impeachment inquiry of Trump unfolds, Johnson, never among America’s most famous presidents, though widely considered one of the worst, is attracting renewed attention.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/01/2019
  

  Why Donald Trump is much more dangerous than Andrew Johnson

  by Sidney M. Milkis and Daniel J. Tichenor

  While both presidents are demagogues who faced impeachment, today’s political reality means that Trump can do more damage

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• 6/30/19
  

  How the Specter of Andrew Johnson Haunts Donald Trump

  by Mike Purdy

  When the history books are written, impeachment may define Trump’s presidency in a similar way that “impeachment” and “Andrew Johnson” are solidly and forever linked together.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  5/8/19
  

  Brenda Wineapple, Author of a New Book About Andrew Johnson, on the Right Reasons to Impeach a President

  "To reduce the impeachment of Andrew Johnson to a mistaken incident in American history, a bad taste in the collective mouth, disagreeable and embarrassing, is to forget the extent to which slavery and thus the very fate of the nation lay behind Johnson’s impeachment.”

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11-13-18
  

  How a Difficult, Racist, Stubborn President Was Removed From Power—If Not From Office

  by David Priess

  Members of Congress and some in Andrew Johnson’s own Cabinet wanted him gone. They did the next best thing.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8-4-18
  

  If You Want To End Racism, Stop Forgiving Racists

  by Carol Anderson

  We have tended to forgive those who waged the most sustained, brutal assaults in the name of white supremacy, without requiring them to repudiate their beliefs or actions in return.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7-27-18
  

  What happened the last time a President chose America's enemies over its friends

  by Manisha Sinha

  The president was Andrew Johnson.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7-5-18
  

  Ron Chernow on the Midterm Elections of 1866

  by Amy Davidson Sorkin

  In 1866, President Andrew Johnson pressured Ulysses S. Grant into joining him in a series of rallies where he aired his vulgarity and racism.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  5-16-18
  

  150 Years Ago, a President Could Be Impeached for Firing a Cabinet Member

  The president was Andrew Johnson. The Senate declined to convict him.

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• 4/22/18
  

  No Matter How Bad Trump Is at His Job, He’s Unlikely to Be Impeached Unless Congress Can Finger Him for a Crime

  by David O. Stewart

  Impeachment is a political act masquerading as a judicial proceeding.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2-13-18
  

  The failed president who almost got ousted

  by Donald Nieman

  Who’s the most vulgar, racist, thin-skinned, vituperative U.S. president?  Donald Trump and Andrew Johnson have much in common.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-20-18
  

  They Were Bad. He May Be Worse.

  by Sean Wilentz

  The best way to evaluate President Trump's first year in office is to compare him not with the great presidents but with the worst.

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• 11-26-17
  

  There's an Ominous Parallel with the Fight Over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  It was a similar argument about the power of a president to fill an executive position that ended with the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. 

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• 7-30-17
  

  These Two Presidents Also Had Bad Starts

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  One was almost impeached, the other was impeached. Both are regarded as failures.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  5-20-17
  

  When Congress Almost Ousted a Failing President

  by Joshua Zeitz

  It’s Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson, who provides the best model for Trump’s collapsing presidency.

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• 4-23-17
  

  Who Else Is Trump Like?

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Presidents John Tyler and Andrew Johnson, two previous presidents who faced impeachment.