"Still, history shows that [Russ Feingold] ought to move carefully. While many have compared the censure proposal to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, there is a more relevant precedent: In 1834, America's most famous political orator, Henry Clay of Kentucky, arranged the Senate's only successful censure of a president, Andrew Jackson — and he never stopped paying for his accomplishment."
Historian H.W. Brands in The New York Times assesses the legacy of presidential censure.
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