by Mike Purdy | Dec 5, 2012 | Barack Obama, Grover Cleveland, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Terms of Office
Grover ClevelandWe call Barack Obama our 44th president, but we’re counting presidential administrations and not the actual number of men who have served as president.And the number is different. We’ve had 44 presidential administrations, but only 43...
by Mike Purdy | Aug 29, 2011 | Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Herbert Hoover, Impeachments, John Tyler, Richard Nixon
The founding fathers included in the U.S. Constitution the right of the House of Representatives to impeach the President and other officers. Article II, Section 4 states that: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be...
by Mike Purdy | Aug 9, 2011 | Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon Thirty-seven years ago today, on August 9, 1974, Richard M. Nixon became the first President of the United States to resign from office. Faced with the Watergate scandal and the increasing likelihood that he would be impeached by the House of...