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"The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office."

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American Historian

Genius, Fact, Man, Office

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"The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office."

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