Laurie Lee Quotes
I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.
In modern times, a President has the right to fire anyone in his own cabinet. However, at the time, there was a law that required a President to get the approval of Congress to fire a cabinet member who had been confirmed. The question for the impeachment trial was whether or not President Johnson’s breaking of the law was sufficiently serious a violation to constitute a “high crime or misdemeanor”. There are some who argue that the original meaning of “high crime” when the Constitution was written was treason.
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire.
