Impeachment!!!: This Date in History

[05C40]

I don’t think Oliver played football at UNC.

It was Ken Willard, Junior Edge (great name), and others who led UNC to its first bowl win, 35-0 in the 1963 Gator Bowl.

John Swofford was a FR in 1965. Freshmen didn’t play. His varsity career was ‘66-‘68.

Sullivan’s introduction of John Swofford was pretty white bread, neutral, and meaningless. John Swofford stood up, waved, and sat down.

You are correct. I mistyped Oliver (one time) when I should have typed Johnny. Ed Sullivan introduced Oliver's younger brother, John Swofford, as a football player. Quite honestly, for a memory that was about 55 years old, I don't think I did all that bad. It was a game against Vanderbilt, not Air Force. I didn't say anything about a bowl game. My recollection was that it was just a regular season game. But you are correct that I misremembered the details of an Ed Sullivan show from 55 years ago. I am sorry for doing so.

 

[Zoo_View]

You are correct. I mistyped Oliver (one time) when I should have typed Johnny. Ed Sullivan introduced Oliver's younger brother, John Swofford, as a football player. Quite honestly, for a memory that was about 55 years old, I don't think I did all that bad. It was a game against Vanderbilt, not Air Force. I didn't say anything about a bowl game. My recollection was that it was just a regular season game. But you are correct that I misremembered the details of an Ed Sullivan show from 55 years ago. I am sorry for doing so.

During Swofford’s UNC career, UNC football SUCKED.

 

[donbosco]

#OTD (Feb. 24) in 1868, Raleigh-born and raised Andrew Johnson, who became the 17th US President upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, became the First President Impeached for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Until Donald Trump took office he had been rated our nation’s worst Chief Executive by many. In May of that year the Senate acquitted. Andrew Johnson Impeached, 1868

The Impeachments of the two were quite different affairs. Johnson was impeached in a dispute with the Radical Republican faction in U.S. Congress over control of Reconstruction (though the charges were violating the Tenure of Office Act by removing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton without Senate approval). Trump was impeached twice, the first time over foreign policy crimes related to The Ukraine. He pressured that country to investigate his rival Joe Biden and then obstructed Congress. The second time he was impeached for attempting to overthrow the electoral process — i.e., the January 6 Insurrection. Both times a Senate 2/3 majority could not be achieved. While Johnson was hardly the man he replaced his impeachment was pure political maneuvering. The impeachments of trump, as we are living at present, were well-founded efforts to protect the constitutional democratic republic from his criminal depredations and personal greed.