Thursday, November 24, 2011

Which of the 3 presidents that faced impeachment should have acutally have been impeached?

i dont know if that makes sence but the 3 presidents that faced impeachment were Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton. which one really deserved to be impeached? like they weren't actually the president anymore?|||Johnson and Clinton were not convicted by the Senate because the articles of impeachment did not raise the level of high crimes and misdemeanors as required by the constitution. Impeachment by the House is like an indictment by a grand jury, it is an official allegation not a trial. The trial is held by the Senate.





Nixon was never impeached. The articles of impeachment were being prepared for a vote in the house when he resigned. He probably would have been impeached and convicted. If not for the pardon by President Ford he probably would have been also indicted in the criminal courts. He allegedly misused the authority of the President to obstruct justice, a felony. There is ample evidences included recordings of Oval office conversations of him conspiring with his aides to commit these crimes. His aides went to jail but he was pardoned.|||Richard Nixon was part of the Watergate scandal, spying on the democrats. He resigned in order to avoid impeachment. Andrew Johnson was impeached because he didn't know how to run the country after Abraham Lincoln died. I forget why Bill Clinton was impeached, but....they all deserved what the got.|||i never understood watergate, we had a man with all the powers to use and he was said to use lowlifes. the only thing that nixon did that the others didn't was say he would end vietnam and he did and he did it quickly.





clinton should have been impeached. he not only used the office of the president for illegal purposes


but he endanged national security while doing it. a man that cannot keep his marriage vows made before his god will not keep any vows. if he will lie to his god he will lie to us. he was a pervert. and maybe monica was too, but he was the man in charge and we expected him to be strong enough to control himself. he showed he had very little self control.





obama could be tried and impeached under the same rules that johnson was. http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presiden鈥?/a>|||I would say both Richard Nixon for water gate and Bill Clinton for lying under oath.|||Johnson should have been impeached but he was impeached for something that wasn't as bad as his offenses- undermining reconstruction.





Why he should have been impeached:


Dismissing Stanton from office after the Senate had voted not to concur with his dismissal and had ordered him reinstated.


Appointing Thomas Secretary of War ad interim despite the lack of vacancy in the office, since the dismissal of Stanton had been invalid.


Appointing Thomas without the required advice and consent of the Senate.


Conspiring, with Thomas and "other persons to the House of Representatives unknown," to unlawfully prevent Stanton from continuing in office.


Conspiring to unlawfully curtail faithful execution of the Tenure of Office Act.


Conspiring to "seize, take, and possess the property of the United States in the Department of War."


Conspiring to "seize, take, and possess the property of the United States in the Department of War" with specific intent to violate the Tenure of Office Act.


Issuing to Thomas the authority of the office of Secretary of War with unlawful intent to "control the disbursements of the moneys appropriated for the military service and for the Department of War."


Issuing to Major General William H. Emory orders with unlawful intent to violate the Tenure of Office Act.


Making three speeches with intent to sow disrespect for the Congress among the citizens of the United States.





Nixon resigned before impeachment and Clinton's offense was nowhere near that of Johnson's.|||Nixon wasn't Impeached He Re-signed because He could have actually been not Only impeached but thrown out of Office too, the only one of the three that Deserved it BTW.

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