We've talked a lot about just how unusual a president Donald Trump has been.

His withering attacks on the FBI and his own Justice Department, his tweet storms floating

bizarre conspiracy theories with little basis in fact.

His rally is where he riles up his followers with angry, hate-filled rhetoric against his

political enemies and journalists who he has called enemies of the people.

So consider this, 150 years ago, the House of Representatives impeached a president, Andrew

Johnson, in part for conduct, and I quote, unmindful of the high duties of his office and the

dignity and proprieties they are of.

Johnson of course had been Abraham Lincoln's vice president and was sworn in after the

great emancipators assassination.

There were 11 articles of impeachment against Johnson.

Most of them revolving around Johnson's attempts to fire Lincoln's Secretary of War at

Winston-Tan, a violation the House charged of a law passed by Congress called the Ten

Year of Office Act.

But one of those articles, article 10 to be exact, laid out a different charge that seems

to have an eerie parallel to the Trump presidency.

It focused on Johnson's rhetoric, travel around the country, denouncing Congress's plans

for reconstruction, including laws and amendments that guaranteed rights to the newly emancipated

slaves.

In those speeches, article 10 charged, Johnson did quote, attempt to bring into disgrace,

ridicule, hatred, contempt, and reproach the Congress of the United States.

And to quote, excite the odium and resentment of all the good people of the United States

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