"High Crimes and Misdemeanors " Through line Podcast- NPR |
- 1865- Lincon was assassinated, Johnson becomes president
- Lincon was republican, Johnson was a southern democrat
- The country was still in shambles, many displaced (but free) African Americans
- Johnson was not a progressive
- He was a white supremacist
- Vetoed many African American rights bills and amendments
- Congress is starting to get annoyed
- 1866- “All out political warfare”
- Race riots and manslaughter of African Americans
- Result of Johnson’s presidency
- Reconstruction acts- trying to get elections in the south so they gain representation back in congress
- This is overseen by the military
- Johnson says this is a military occupation that should be stopped.
- “Congress has decided that the U.S. military should be responsible for, you know, maintaining law and order in the South. But Johnson, on the flip side, says it's military occupation.”
- February 24, 1868- johnson’s trial
- No impeachment by one vote
- The country was kind of divided and chaotic
- Had to eventually “let bygones be bygones” and let it go