Kansas senator Edmund Ross cast one of the votes that kept Andrew Johnson in office by a single vote, and here he explains why. He sets out the quarrel over Reconstruction, the Tenure of Office Act, the House’s articles of impeachment and the Senate trial of 1868, arguing that removal would have made the presidency the servant of Congress.
An insider’s account of the first presidential impeachment, still read whenever the power is debated. Download the free EPUB.