High Crimes and Misdemeanors

This week we return to 1868 and the first presidential impeachment in U.S. history — President Andrew Johnson.

An episode of the Throughline podcast, hosted by NPR, titled "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" was published on October 3, 2019 and runs 19 minutes.

October 3, 2019 ·19m · Throughline

Summary

When Andrew Johnson became president in 1865, the United States was in the middle 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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