MIKE GREACIA

On January 7, 1999, the impeachment trial of President Bill
Clinton, formally charged with lying under oath and
obstructing justice, began in the Senate. As instructed
in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution, Supreme Court Chief
Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in to preside (below),
and the senators were sworn in as jurors. Congress had only
attempted to remove a president on one other occasion:
the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson,
who incurred the Republican Party’s wrath after he proposed
a conservative Reconstruction plan.

House Minority Leader John Boehner, right, hands the gavel
to newly elected Speak of the House Nancy Pelosi in the
House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

On January 4, 2007, John Boehner handed the speaker of the
House gavel over to Nancy Pelosi, a Democratic Representative
from California. With the passing of the gavel, she became the
first woman to hold the Speaker of the House position, as well
as the only woman to get that close the presidency. After the
Vice President, she was now second in line via the presidential
order of succession. Pelosi became Speaker again in 2018.

Nancy Pelosi ripped up a copy of President Donald Trumps
State of the Union speech in 2020.

Three days after his assassination in Dallas, Texas, John F. Kennedy
was laid to rest with full military honors at Arlington National
Cemetery in Virginia.

Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was shot to death
while riding in an open-car motorcade with his wife and Texas
Governor John Connally through the streets of downtown Dallas.

Ex-Marine and communist sympathizer Lee Harvey Oswald was the alleged assassin. Kennedy was rushed to Dallas’ Parkland Hospital, where he was pronounced dead 30 minutes later. He was 46.

Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who was three cars behind
President Kennedy in the motorcade, was sworn in as the 36th
president of the United States less than two hours later. He took
the presidential oath of office aboard Air Force One as it sat on
the runway at Dallas Love Field airport. The swearing in was
witnessed by some 30 people, including Jacqueline Kennedy,
who was still wearing clothes stained with her husband’s blood.
Seven minutes later, the presidential jet took off for Washington.

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is the 46th and current president
of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he
previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to
2017 under President Barack Obama, and represented
Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.