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MrRodgers -> RE: Is history repeating itself? (6/6/2016 1:10:38 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/history-campaign-politics-zachary-taylor-killed-whigs-political-party-213935
I hope not.
What's ironic is that it was the Republican Party that replaced the Whig Party just a few years later.
.....but they had a stronger cause, anti-slavery and a much better man...Lincoln. Made up of former Whigs, Free Soil democrats and Know Nothings. The repubs came to dominate presidential elections until FDR in 1932.
But then came the Radical Repubs. the Radicals pushed for the uncompensated abolition of slavery, while Lincoln wanted to pay slave owners who were loyal to the Union. After the war, the Radicals demanded civil rights for freedmen, such as measures ensuring suffrage.
They initiated the various Reconstruction Acts, and limited political and voting rights for ex-Confederate civil officials, military officers and soldiers. They bitterly fought seventeenth President Andrew Johnson; they weakened his powers and attempted to remove him from office through impeachment, which failed by one vote in 1868.
That's right kinkroids. Repubs tried to remove a repub pres. from office. Can you imagine that now ?
Dems who stated that Clinton was clearly guilty of impeachable offenses voted for aquittal so they would impeach a Dem president.
On the other hand Nixon resigned because a group of Rep senators, led by Barry Goldwater told him he should as they were going to vote guilty.
What is considered the central question to the senate watergate herarings was asked by Senator Baker, a Rep.
It may be the the Rep have sunk to the level of the Dems but the Dems have made it clear.
Many more repubs than dems in the house voted against impeachment articles against Clinton. The house had a repub majority. The senate dems voted against conviction.
However, The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson’s removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history.
The Republican-dominated Congress greatly opposed Johnson’s Reconstruction program and in March 1867 passed the Tenure of Office Act over the president’s veto. The bill prohibited the president from removing officials confirmed by the Senate without senatorial approval and was designed to shield members of Johnson’s Cabinet like Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who had been a leading Republican radical in the Lincoln administration.
At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Andrew Johnson, a senator from Tennessee, was the only U.S. senator from a seceding state who remained loyal to the Union. In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him military governor of Tennessee, and in 1864 he was elected vice president of the United States. Sworn in as president after Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, President Johnson enacted a lenient Reconstruction policy for the defeated South, including almost total amnesty to ex-Confederates, a program of rapid restoration of U.S.-state status for the seceded states, and the approval of new, local Southern governments, which were able to legislate “Black Codes” that preserved the system of slavery in all but its name.
On February 21, 1868, Johnson decided to rid himself of Stanton once and for all and appointed General Lorenzo Thomas, an individual far less favorable to the Congress than Grant, as secretary of war. Stanton refused to yield, barricading himself in his office, and the House of Representatives, which had already discussed impeachment after Johnson’s first dismissal of Stanton, initiated formal impeachment proceedings against the president. On February 24, Johnson was impeached, and on March 13 his impeachment trial began in the Senate under the direction of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. The trial ended on May 26 with Johnson’s opponents narrowly failing to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to convict him.
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