2006-09-07 05:15:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
No U.S. president has ever been impeached. Richard Nixon was threatened with impeachment over charges of his involvement in theft of documents leading to some sort of treason-related conspiracy (I'm not sure of the details. Nixon was my first president, so I was really little), but he resigned instead and Gerald Ford became president.
Bill Clinton was threatened with impeachment, but there were no clear grounds for impeaching him because he didn't commit any clear criminal offense against the U.S. people or government (no, lying about getting a bl0wj0b does not make you a threat to the public).
2006-09-07 05:23:05 · answer #1 · answered by badkitty1969 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a trick question, there was more than one President that was impeached. ;)
Really though, as others have said, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are the only U.S. Presidents to ever get impeached.
"Impeachment in the United States is an expressed power of the legislature which allows for formal charges to be brought against a high official of government for conduct committed in office. The trial or removal of an official is separate from the act of impeachment. Typically, the lower house of the legislature will impeach the official and the upper house will conduct the trial."
2006-09-07 14:59:24 · answer #2 · answered by nis350ztt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson had articles of impeachment against them by the House of Representatives. In the matter of impeachement, the House acts somewhat like a grand jury at court level, it decides if there is enough evidence to bring charges. Essentially, the articles of impeachment are similar to charges. The Senate then holds a trial. In the case of Clinton and Johnson, neither were found to have violated the Constitution in a manner that justified impeachment and removal from office. In Johnson's case, it was by one vote.
2006-09-07 12:42:51 · answer #3 · answered by jerry f 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
President Clinton
2006-09-07 12:20:15 · answer #4 · answered by Jessica p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
President Clinton was impeached due to his covert interractions with the robustly Monica Lweinsky.
2006-09-07 12:18:30 · answer #5 · answered by Convuluted and excluded 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clinton was impeached for lying under oath.
2006-09-07 12:19:12 · answer #6 · answered by rustyshackleford001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Andrew Johnson, and Clinton,
but both were found not guilty by the Senate.
2006-09-07 12:21:50 · answer #7 · answered by Kutekymmee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Andrew Johnson (17th pres) and Bill Clinton (42nd).
2006-09-07 12:21:53 · answer #8 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Johnson and Clinton?
2006-09-07 12:21:07 · answer #9 · answered by hichefheidi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clinton, for lying to congress.
2006-09-07 12:54:56 · answer #10 · answered by jack jr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋