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If a president gets impeached does his/her portrait get removed?

Asked by RedDeerGuy1 (24986points) May 31st, 2019

What else happens? Like having all of his laws removed? Ect… What happened when Nixon was impeached? Has his portrait been removed?

What are some interesting trivia on USA and other countries in the world about impeachment and loss of confidence?

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kritiper's avatar

A portrait removed from where? Like expunged from history itself? No. Any portraits, photographs, films, recordings, stay on to mark that history.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

@kritiper In the White House/house of commons, and statues and other artworks on federal property.

kritiper's avatar

Nope. They are still there.

gorillapaws's avatar

If I were president, I’d be sure to relocate Trump’s portrait to hang over the toilet.

zenvelo's avatar

The portrait (if he gets one) would still hang in the National Portrait Gallery.

Any laws enacted aren’t “his” laws, they are Federal laws that were passed bu Congress.

And Nixon was not removed from office; he resigned.

gondwanalon's avatar

Bill Clinton was impeached and nothing negative happened to him.

LostInParadise's avatar

Even if a president is impeached and removed from office, it does not change the fact that the president was elected and spent time in office. Some foreign governments might try to rewrite history, but that is not how it works in a democracy.

Darth_Algar's avatar

Impeachment does not mean removal from office. It’s basically an indictment (though not a criminal indictment), a way of saying “we find (so and so) to have committed (such and such) and now move to punish (such and such act)” . For the office of President of the United States the House of Representatives must first vote on impeachment. If the House does vote for impeachment it then move to the Senate to vote on removal from office.

So far in US history only two presidents (Andrew Jackson and Bill Clinton) have been impeached, and none have been removed from office. Impeachment proceedings were started for Richard Nixon, but he resigned from office before impeachment could be voted on.

Unfortunately, these things generally come down to partisanship. With Clinton, for example, the Republican-controlled House voted for impeachment, but the Democratic-controlled Senate voted against removal. Likewise, with Donald Trump, if proceedings started today, it’s extremely likely that the Democratic-controlled House would vote for impeachment, but extremely unlikely that the Republican-controlled Senate would vote for removal.

Lonelyheart807's avatar

Yes, Thanos snaps his fingers, and the person and all their photos, etc., dissolve into dust!

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