The House of Representatives has announced an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Two presidents--Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton--have been impeached. Neither was removed from office. The only president to leave office as the result of impeachment was never actually impeached.
According to Wikipedia, an impeachment process against Richard Nixon began
in the on October 30, 1973, following the "Saturday Night Massacre" episode of
the Watergate scandal. The House Judiciary
Committee set up an impeachment inquiry staff and began investigations
into possible impeachable offenses by Richard
Nixon, the 37th President of the United States.
The
process was formally initiated on February 6, 1974, when the House of
Representatives passed a resolution, H.Res.
803, giving the Judiciary Committee authority to investigate whether
sufficient grounds existed to impeach Nixon[1] of high crimes and misdemeanors,
primarily related to Watergate. This investigation was undertaken one year
after the United States Senate established a select committee to
investigate the 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters
at the Watergate office complex in Washington,
D.C., and the Nixon Administration's attempted
cover-up of its involvement.
Following a subpoena from the Judiciary Committee, in April
1974 edited transcripts of many Watergate-related conversations from the Nixon White House tapes were made
public by Nixon, but the committee pressed for full tapes and additional
conversations. Nixon refused, but on July 24, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered him to comply.
On July 27, 29, and 30, 1974, the Committee approved three articles of
impeachment against Nixon, for obstruction of justice, abuse
of power, and contempt of Congress, and reported those
articles to the House of Representatives. Two other articles of impeachment
were debated but not approved.
Before the House could vote on the impeachment
resolutions, Nixon made public on August 5, 1974 a transcript of one of the
additional conversations, known as the "Smoking Gun Tape", which
made clear his complicity in the cover-up. With his political support
completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974. It is widely
believed that had Nixon not resigned, his impeachment by the House and removal
from office by a trial before the United States Senate would have occurred.
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