Every Holiday Needs a Song
You know Clinton and Bush(s)
and ‘Bama and Reagan
Carter and Kennedy
Ford and Nixon
But dooo you recaaaaalll
The most hated President of alllll?
Andrew Johnson, the first impeached president
Was not a really wonderful dude
And if you ever saw him
You would even say he blews (as a president)
All of the other parties
Used to laugh and call him names
The National Union Party
Never managed to hold any sway
Then one foggy April night
John Wilkes Booth came to say
Lincoln with your hat so tall
Won’t you go away?
Johnson was sworn in the next day
Now he’s the guy in charge
All his wishy-washy Confederate leanings
Crashed ahead on the country like a barge!
Two years later Johnson was impeached (unsuccessfully) for the first time. The next year, 1868, Congress made it stick, so buh bye Johnson.
He may not have done much with his time as commander in Chief.
But in his short rein, he did manage to buy Alaska.
Home of Mz. Palin and Republican grief.
So his legacy lives on……
Or, one might say….
Andrew Johnson, the first impeached president,
You’ll go down in history!
Photo and facts courtesy of the Andrew Johnson Wikipedia page.
