The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1868) President of the United States

“The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

Trump’s impeachment came after a formal House inquiry alleged that he had solicited foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election to help his re-election bid, and then obstructed the inquiry itself by telling his administration officials to ignore subpoenas for documents and testimony.

Nixon was impeached because of covering up the Watergate Scandal. He was impeached on the grounds of Obstruction of Justice, Abuse of Powers, Contempt of Congress. He wouldn’t hand over the tapes. He resigned before removed from office.

The House Judiciary Committee then approved articles of impeachment against Nixon for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. With his complicity in the cover-up made public and his political support completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974.

A break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington was carried out under the direction of White House employees. Disclosure of the White House involvement in the break-in and subsequent cover-up forced President Nixon to resign in 1974 to avoid impeachment.

It limited contributions to presidential campaigns. It stopped the president from going to war without support from the congress. You just studied 7 terms!

As a result of the Watergate Scandal many Americans lost faith in the government and caused the reputation of the presidency to be greatly damaged.

What was significant about the revelation that Nixon taped his conversations? A name given to resignation of the U.S. attorney general and the firing of his deputy in October 1973, after they refused to carry out President Nixon’s order to to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate affair.

-it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape recording system in his offices and that he had recorded many conversations. Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing that he had attempted to cover up the break-in.

What did the “White House tapes” reveal? the burglary at Democratic headquarters was simply a third-rate caper, and no one on the White House staff had been involved. President Nixon had ordered a cover-up in the Watergate affair. Nixon had tried to steal the 1960 presidential election.

The Nixon White House tapes are audio recordings of the communications of U.S. President Richard Nixon and various Nixon administration officials and White House staff, ordered by the President for personal records.

President Nixon initially refused to release the tapes, for two reasons: first, that the Constitutional principle of executive privilege extends to the tapes and citing the separation of powers and checks and balances within the Constitution, and second, claiming they were vital to national security.