Presidents who faced impeachment: Andrew Johnson
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🗓️ 23 December 2019
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Allison Michaels here, and this week on Can He Do That, we're doing something |
| 0:14.0 | a little different. |
| 0:15.8 | As you probably know by now, President Trump is just the third President in American history |
| 0:20.9 | to be impeached and the fourth to face impeachment proceedings. |
| 0:25.1 | And my colleague, Lillian Cunningham, knows all about those three other presidents. |
| 0:34.4 | She created the Post's Presidential Podcast, which spent almost a year going back through |
| 0:39.5 | American history to examine the life and legacy of each and every American president. |
| 0:45.4 | That of course includes presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton. |
| 0:50.7 | This week we're going to share those original presidential episodes about the only three |
| 0:54.8 | other presidents to face impeachment proceedings. |
| 0:58.0 | But first I wanted to talk to Lillian about the Presidential Podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | Lillian, welcome to Can He Do That. |
| 1:04.2 | Thanks, longtime listener, first time guest on your show. |
| 1:09.0 | It's true, longtime colleague, first time guest. |
| 1:11.6 | So you made the Presidential Podcast back in 2016, and for our listeners who aren't familiar |
| 1:16.8 | with it, tell us about that project. |
| 1:19.1 | Sure, so presidential was this big audio project that I did in the most recent presidential |
| 1:26.1 | election year. |
| 1:27.9 | And the idea I had was to chronicle the arc of American presidential history by going |
| 1:35.3 | through and doing an episode on each American president one a week starting in January 2016, |
| 1:42.4 | all the way up through Election Day. |
| 1:44.2 | So an easy endeavor. |
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