(2/15/21) You’ve heard it said over and over in the past four years that Donald Trump was “like no president in modern history,” but what about in all of American history? Known for his racist diatribes in public speeches and capitulation to the Confederacy, Lincoln’s Vice President Andrew Johnson was the first president to face impeachment. Though Johnson was only impeached once. In this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI, presidential historian and author of The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation, Brenda Wineapple compares the two administrations.