Origin. It is commonly thought that this expression refers to James Gordon Bennett. JGB was a real person-in fact, with the expansiveness that is appropriate for this story, two real people.t is commonly thought that this expression refers to James Gordon Bennett. JGB was a real person-in fact, with the expansiveness that is appropriate for this story, two real people.
Allan Lichtman reached meme-status last fall for predicting Donald Trump would win long before anyone else. Prediction prof: Trump will be impeached. The professor who took hell for predicting President Donald Trump has a much longer case for predicting President Mike Pence â and itâs all in his new book, out next week.
View Full Document. Only two presidents in the nationâs history have been impeached and tried in the Sen- ate. The first was Andrew Johnson in 1868, who escaped conviction in the Senate by one vote, and the second was Bill Clinton in 1998, who escaped conviction by a wider margin. Each time Congress attempts to impeach a president and fails to remove him from office, it becomes more difficult to use it as a check.