Truth, Politics & Power: Impeachment
With investigations of the President and his campaign staff underway in Washington, host Neal Conan talks about the procedure for the removal of the Chief Executive. An “Impeachment Edition” of Truth Politics and Power explains how and why the Constitutional Convention decided to constrain the powers of presidents and the meaning of “high crimes or misdemeanors.” Plus, in-depth conversations on our two presidential impeachment trials: Nina Totenberg, on William Jefferson Clinton, and David O. Stewart on the dramatic case of Andrew Johnson.
Airs Saturday, July 29 at 10pm on AM820
Guests
Nina Totenberg is legal affairs correspondent for NPR. In her more than 40 years at the network, she has won numerous awards and broken several stories, most notably the sexual harassment allegations by law professor Anita Hill against then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. In 1998 and ’99, Totenberg was part of the team, along with Neal Conan and the late Daniel Schorr, that provided live coverage of impeachment proceedings against President Clinton.
David O. Stewart is the author of Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy, as well as several other fiction and non-fiction books. Stewart is a lawyer who represented a federal judge at his senate impeachment trial. His latest book is The Babe Ruth Deception.
