Bud Selig thinking of reinstating Aaron as HR king

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Posted By: Jim VB

"He was not officially impeached and removed from office like other former presidents."

I may have mentioned this before, as have several other posters, but you couldn't be more WRONG, on several issues.

1. Clinton WAS impeached. Period. December 19, 1998. Officially, unofficially, any other way you can think of it. Impeachment is brought by the House of Representatives. It is the act of being charged with wrongdoing. (Comparable to an indictment in a criminal case.) Nothing more. When a President is impeached, the actual trial is held by the Senate. There was an impeachment. There was a trial. (It was on TV. You may have missed it.) He was acquitted by the Senate.


2. He was the second President to be impeached. The first was Andrew Johnson. He was impeached by political rivals of his own party who thought he was being too soft on the South, during the Reconstruction, following the Civil War. He was also acquitted. (This one wasn't on TV.)


3. No other President of the US has ever been impeached and/or "removed from office." I know. You're thinking of Nixon. He wasn't impeached. He wasn't removed from office. He resigned before any of that could happen.