Tried to impeach him again in 1868. That one stuck. But when those articles of impeachment that passed in the house, when those articles were conveyed over to the senate for president johnson to face trial, they couldnt get a twothirds vote in the senate to convict him and remove him from office. So the effort to remove president Andrew Johnson from office failed, even though he was impeached in the house. Basically the same dynamic at work in 1998. Just before christmas, 1998, when the house of representatives voted for only the second time in u. S. History to impeach the sitting u. S. President , who then was bill clinton. And again, in that instance, the house voted to impeach the president but then they had to convey the articles of impeachment over to the senate and, once again, they could not persuade twothirds of the senate to vote to convict bill clinton and remove him from office. And so, again, that effort to remove him from office via the impeachment process, it failed even
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