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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cool who wrote (4607)	9/22/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Respond to of 67261

daddycool, Quite frankly, this may be what everyone needs is a trial in the U.S. Senate. This has happened once before with Andrew Johnson. The trial was very political. President Johnson was a Southern Democrat that became president after the assasination of President Lincoln. The Republicans were angry of course, that a Southern former slave owner was President only 6 days after the war was over. The whole event was in fact, an attempted overthrow of the U.S. Government by a band of Southern conspirators. The charge against Johnson was a trumped up case of him firing his Secretary of War (for his role in destroying the South). The Republicans in the Senate wanted Andrew Johnson's hide and said that only the Senate could get rid of a Cabinet Member. Johnson survived the Impeachment vote by 1 Senator, a Republican who said that after he cast the vote against impeachment in the Senate Chamber, he "looked down and saw his grave". The reason he cast this vote was because he did not want to burden future Presidents with not being able to fire Cabinet Members. That my friend, was a profile in courage!!! God help us and the Constitution in the coming months... -John