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Impeachment by NPR

Impeachment

from Throughline

by NPR

Published: Thu Jan 14 2021

Show Notes

When Andrew Johnson became president in 1865, the United States was in the midst of one of its most volatile chapters. The country was divided after fighting a bloody civil war and had just experienced the first presidential assassination. We look at how these factors led to the first presidential impeachment in American history.

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