The Fight Over Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Was a Fight for the Future of the United States
The biggest show in Washington 150 years ago was the trial against the President of the United States
By Annette Gordon-Reed
January 2018
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It promised to be a spectacle in a period that had seen its share of them. Three years after the end of a bloody civil war that had sundered the Union, and nearly three years after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the government of the United States had triggered the most serious process in the constitutional mechanism: the power of impeachment.
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