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Tenure of office act. >> congress passed a law over johnson's veto that said he could not fire his own cabinet members. >> when president johnson fired his secretary of war, the house approved 11 articles of impeachment against him. one of which accused the president of bringing congress into ridicule and disgrace. >> their entire approach to impeachment was partisan and ideological. however bad a president andrew johnson was, there were no grounds to remove him. >> the country was one vote away from removing president andrew johnson from office, essentially because congress did not like him o...

Lincoln was assassinated. the country was still deeply divided over the civil war. enter andrew johnson. the vice president who succeeded lincoln. johnson was a southern democrat who lincoln picked to create a national unity ticket. there's few things historians agree upon but this is one, andrew johnson was one of america's worst presidents. >> he was essentially an incredibly racist, neo-confederate that was dead set against congress's program of reconstructing the south. >> republicans in congress despised andrew johnson. >> he stood for the repression of african americans whom a war had ju...

Decided to wage a political war. it sets an impeachment trap for him. that trap was called the ten-year of office act. >> congress passed the law over johnson's veto that says he could not fire his own cabinet members. >> when president johnson fired his secretary of war, the house approved 11 articles of impeachment against him. >> their entire approach to impeachment was partisan and id idea logical. there were no grounds to remove him. the country was one vote away from removing president johnson. johnson basically agreed to seize all the behavior that had been so problematic to go along wi...

>> johnson basically agreed to cease all of the behavior that had been so problematic, to go along with the congressional reconstruction program. >> historians today regard the impeachment trap as unconstitutional. >> impeachment fell into disrepute. >> johnson's impeachment would serve as a warning about the consequences of a partisan impeachment in a sharply divided country. >> it raises blood pressures, and in some perverse ways, it actually makes impeachment harder to use when you might really need it. ♪ introducing le vian links of love, only at jared. visit jared.com for $100 off