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How Andrew Johnson’s impeachment created the template for Trump’s

How Andrew Johnson’s impeachment created the template for Trump’s

FromImpeachment, Explained


How Andrew Johnson’s impeachment created the template for Trump’s

FromImpeachment, Explained

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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Dec 7, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week, the fact-finding phase of the Trump impeachment inquiry officially ended. Reports were released, hearings were held, articles of impeachment are being drafted. Andrew Prokop helps us break it all down.
Then, the impeachment analogue that most closely resembles what we are going through today isn’t Clinton or Nixon, it’s Andrew Johnson. Historian Brenda Wineapple, author of The Impeachers, helps us understand the trial that shaped our nation’s conception of what impeachment means.
Plus, how the GOP has become a definitively anti-Constitutional party.

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Credits:
Producer - Jeff Geld
Researcher - Roge Karma
Theme music composed by Jon Natchez 
Special thanks to Liz Nelson
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Released:
Dec 7, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (20)

We are living through history, but keeping up with the unending stream of revelations, statements, tweets, and disputes is already difficult enough. If we’re going to understand this inquiry–and this presidency–we need to slow down the news cycle long enough to separate the signal from the noise. Every Saturday, Ezra Klein will do just that – through deep conversations with Vox reporters and leading policy voices about what’s going on, why it matters, and where it leaves us now.