RSSLong history of vote-trading on Capitol Hill
From: The Washington Times | December 24, 2009
UPDATED: As it has come down in history, President Andrew Johnson's narrow escape from being the first president convicted on impeachment charges in 1868 depended on the honorable doings of Sen. Edmund Ross of Kansas. But David O. Stewart, author of "Impeached," a book looking at the Johnson trial, says it's more likely the president owed his survival to payments made by his allies' $150,000 "acquittal fund" and to the patronage jobs he doled out after the vote, all but turning over to Ross some appointments in Kansas and the Colorado and New Mexico territories. Vote-trading has a long, inglorious ...
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