No survey of forgotten presidents (such as James Buchanan, Chester A. Arthur or Millard Fillmore) would be complete without our 17th president, Andrew Johnson. His presidency would end in disgrace ...

Andrew Johnson's Presidency Highlighted Issues With Vice Presidential Selection NPR's Robert Siegel interviews University of Virginia historian Barbara Perry about the 150th anniversary of the ...

Andrew Johnson's Failed Presidency Echoes in Trump's White House The disgraced Johnson, like Trump, also declined to attend his successor's inauguration ceremony.

Andrew Johnson’s ratings have plummeted like a rock. In a recent 2010 Siena College survey, Johnson was called the worst president in history. A 2011 survey from a British academic institute ...

It’s been 152 years since Andrew Johnson decided not to attend the swearing-in of Ulysses S. Grant. Now President Trump will do the same to President-elect Joe Biden.

Before he was impeached, President Andrew Johnson considered himself a champion of the common man — but only when those common men were white.

When the nation’s first presidential impeachment trial began 152 years ago, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, was in serious danger of conviction by the Republican-dominated Senate.

To ANDREW JOHNSON, Vice-President of the United States. Mr. JOHNSON requested that the ceremony take place at his rooms at the Kirkwood House, in this city, at 10 o'clock in the morning.

Answer: Andrew Johnson, who served out Lincoln’s second term after the assassination, and Bill Clinton. ... Seven would have to vote against the party line to save Johnson’s presidency.

But, Andrew Johnson reneged on the goals of Abraham Lincoln and allowed some angry southerners to reduce blacks to a state of life that was slavery by another name.

The impeachment trial was almost over, and Sen. James Grimes was tormented with doubt. The senator from Iowa couldn’t stand Andrew Johnson, the belligerent, racist president on trial before the ...