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...express the drama of this turning point of state history. Normally a quiet, representational landscapist, Kerciu adopted the style of Manhattan Artists Jasper Johns and Larry Rivers, who are fascinated by flags and labels. Kerciu painted a big Confederate flag and plastered it with the slogans of the riots: "Impeach JFK." "Would you want your sister to marry one?" "[Scratched-out word] the NAACP." He hung the painting in a one-man show at the university's Fine Arts Center...
Their concern was only prudent. Some 25 signs appeared in Atlanta neighborhoods, pleading "Help Impeach Earl Warren," most of them paid for by Frank H. Benning, 36, a member of the John Birch Society. The Atlanta Committee to Impeach Earl Warren wired Warren: YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE. The North Side News, a scruffy Atlanta weekly, called Warren "a California politician who has the Fascist heart of a dictator." Handbills signed by an "Alumni Committee to Combat Communism at Georgia Tech" begged people to "let this unwelcome visitor speak to the empty hall he deserves...
...chief. Silliman Jr. absented himself frequently on extended tours. Ball focused on cutting costs. The paper turned pale and comatose. The Tennessean's pub lisher was probably more embarrassed than pleased when Assistant City Editor John Seigenthaler published a 1956 series on teamster corruption in Tennessee that helped impeach Chattanooga Criminal Court Judge Ralston Schoolfield. As the school segregation issue shook the South, the Tennessean's editorials were models of cautious vapidity. Dispirited staffers drifted away. Seigenthaler quit to work for Bobby Kennedy in Washington...
...your review of Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War [Feb. 23], your reviewer writes, "In large part, it was Johnson's attack on Stanton that led Congress to try to impeach the President. The attempt failed by one vote...
...House of Representatives did impeach Andrew Johnson. To impeach means to charge with a crime. What failed by one vote was the attempt to convict Johnson of the charges. The Senate, which has the sole right to try impeachment cases, acquitted President Johnson by a vote of 35 to 19, just one vote short of the required two-thirds majority...