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	Podcast:		HISTORY This Week
	Episode:		Reconstruction II: The First Presidential Impeachment
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:39:01
	Publish Date:		2022-05-16 09:01:35
	Description:		May 16, 1868. The Capitol is filled with spectators, anxiously trying to predict how each Senator will vote. It’s the first presidential impeachment trial in American history, and its outcome will have profound effects on Reconstruction, the great project of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War. What made many members of Congress declare President Andrew Johnson unfit to lead that effort? And what motivated this former ally of Abraham Lincoln to declare himself an enemy of true Reconstruction? Visit History.com/Reconstruction for more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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