House Speaker Mike Johnson defended Republicans' impeachment inquiry into President Biden in a new op-ed, arguing there was mounting evidence suggesting Biden was involved in his son Hunter's ...

Andrew Johnson. When President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Andrew Johnson became the 17th president of the United States and served from 1865 to 1869.. Johnson was impeached by the House of ...

Impeachment, some cool heads hoped, would be enough to scare the president into behaving, without convicting him. “I think Johnson,” John Hay prayed, “will put some water in his whiskey now.” ...

Another good day to remember that in 1868 President Johnson was impeached on February 24th, a Monday, for something Johnson did on February 21st, the previous Friday. The only reason it took that ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday defended a vote scheduled this week to formalize the impeachment inquiry into President Biden, arguing that unlike what Democrats did with the "sham ...

Johnson’s impeachment in 1868 was the culmination of a bitter dispute between the president and the Republican-controlled House over Reconstruction following the Civil War.

With the House's fourth impeachment underway, NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with historian Manisha Sinha to look back at the United States' first presidential impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said that he intends to hold a floor vote to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas "as soon as possible" for allegedly facilitating record-breaking illegal immigration along the US ...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — Andrew Johnson, the first American president to be impeached, doesn’t exactly have a presidential library as much as a collection of buildings that are dedicated to his ...

On May 16, 1868, the Senate voted on whether to remove President Andrew Johnson from office. And no one was sure what the outcome would be, including Johnson's arch-foe, Rep. Thaddeus Stevens.

The prosecution of President Andrew Johnson in 1868 was an attempt to restore faith in America’s original ideals. By Brenda Wineapple Ms. Wineapple is the author of “The Impeachers: the Trial ...