POLS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Perjury, Fiscal Year, Watergate Scandal
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Impeachment: politically equal to a criminal indictment (basically a political indictment) Andrew johnson became president when abraham lincoln was assassinated, 1868-1869 he was impeached for corruption, obstruction of justice, and violation of federal laws; was found not guilty by one vote. Bill clinton 1998-1999 impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice. Only sixty found him guilty so he was found not guilty and got to finish his term. All senators knew he was guilty but they didn"t want al gore to be president so they found him not guilty also didn"t wanna impeach him because he was popular and america liked him. His main campaign goal for his first term was to fix the economy, which he did. Richard nixon (almost) paranoid that democrats wanted to kill him off politically; ran for president in 1960 against a kennedy, 1968 ran again but another kennedy killed, 1972 runs against another kennedy; Watergate scandal, building in washington where democrats had their headquarters.
