Two U.S. presidents have been impeached: Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth chief executive, and William J. Clinton, the forty-second. ----------------------- While both were impeached, neither Johnson nor Clinton were convicted.
Of those president that were not impeached, Richard Nixon came the closest to being impeached. There is virtually no question that he would have been impeached if he had not resigned. (Whether he would have been convicted is harder to predict.)
He appeared to have been involved in the cover-up of the Watergate burglary.
Because he got laid and some stuck up republicans did not like it.
Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton actually were impeached but not convicted. Nixon most likely would have been impeached had he not resigned his office when he did.
Bill Clinton
Richard Nixon.
Former president Bill Clinton was almost impeached, but he wasn't. he got acquitted
Andrew Johnson.
Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached and both were later acquitted. Richard Nixon almost got impeached but resigned before.
The President can be impeached. After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated his vice President (Andrew Johnson) was impeached. Also Nixon was impeached
To get impeached the president would have to bribe, lie, or have a misdemeanor against him.
He resigned on August 9,1974. Preliminary impeachment proceeding was underway in the House already.
President Andrew Johnson and President Bill Clinton were both impeached. President Richard Nixon was supposed to be impeached, but he stepped down from office before the official impeachment, so technically he wasn't impeached.
The second President to be impeached was William J. Clinton, in 1998.
It is not true that President Andrew Jackson was almost impeached. You are thinking of Johnson, not Jackson. And in Johnson's case, it was a complicated matter of post Civil War politics. Some people thought that Johnson, a southerner, should not be allowed to succeed Lincoln following the assassination of Lincoln.
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The impeachments for each person would be separate, but they can most certainly be impeached at or near the same time. But that depends on how the House of Representatives wished to proceed - they could decide that handling both impeachment procedures concurrently would be too much all at once.
If a president is impeached, then the vice president takes over and serves out the rest of the term as president.