Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- Writer David O. Stewart delves into his 2010 work, "Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy". The chronicle traces the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson to its roots in the social and political revolutions that rocked the south with the end of slavery and the Civil War.
Stewart is also the bestselling author of "The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution".
Thank you for this. Now that we as a nation have launched an impeachment inquiry once more, it's unfortunate how little there is about this almost-successful impeachment. It's remarkable how much is still relevant today.
What a great presenter. Well laid out and delightful humor. I hope to find his speeches on his other books.
Fantastic presentation, very engaging and interesting.
He is always a good presenter.
This is one of the most interesting history presentations I've heard on UA-cam. I've known about the impeachment since high school but never knew the real reasons why. Excellent presentation.
Excellent job
Excellent stuff. AJ's personality REALLY hurt him; he was reactive and disputatious, and I wonder just how much his angry stubbornness contributed to his impeachment.
Prophetic
3:02 he literally looks like Andrew himself just the hair brushed to the opposite direction
Othello the great African general: “Dost Thou Mock Me?”
Iago the schemer: *“I mock you no! By heaven would you bear your fortunes like a man?”*
-William Shakespeare, Thomas Nast’s Political Cartoon 1866
This presentation overlooks the most bizarre incident concerning the impeachment. The night before the May 16 1868 vote in Andrew Johnson's Senate trial, a twenty-year-old girl named Lavinia “Vinnie” Ream--the celebrated artist and coquettish society sensation who at the age of 18 was awarded the Congressional commission to sculpt the statue of Lincoln now standing in the Capitol rotunda--used her talents to foil the purpose of a midnight caller to her father’s Capitol Hill residence: to secure the deciding vote for conviction from Republican Senator Edmund Ross, a resident in that house.
The visitor was Daniel Sickles--litigious Manhattanite real estate speculator, notorious lady's man, ex-Congressman, acquitted killer of his wife's lover, former Civil War general, recently-sacked military governor of the Carolinas, future lover of the Spanish Queen, and as of 1868 the most notorious and formidable political hatchet man in 19th-Century Washington. Acting under the assumption that Ross was "hopelessly infatuated" with pro-Johnson Vinnie and willing to do her bidding to acquit Johnson, Sickles showed up at midnight determined to overcome Vinnie's opposition by using all the tools at his disposal: bribery, intimidation, or seduction. See here the details of how young Vinnie successfully thwarted Sickles--thereby saving President Andrew Johnson from impeachment in a video entitleld "The Devil vs. the Hummingbird": www.c-span.org/video/?456987-1/sculptor-vinnie-ream-daniel-sickles-andrew-johnsons-impeachment
54:00 interesting. He said this before Trump