If . . . the President must step down ... a disgraced man and a political outcast . . . upon insufficient proofs and from partisan considerations, the office of President would be degraded, cease to be a coordinate branch of the government, and ever after subordinated to the legislative will. It would practically have revolutionized our splendid political fabric into a partisan Congressional autocracy. . . . This government Lad never faced so insidious a danger . . , control by the worst element of American politics.
..Edmund G. Ross (R Kansas).quoted in Profiles in Courage
about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. ---
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