President Richard M. Nixon had faced the possibility of being impeached for his role in the Watergate scandal, but he resigned before he could face charges.
Is that why Rousseff was being impeached?
In better days, the 30-room, 8,596-square-foot residence was the site of a fund-raiser for President Barack Obama, before he became a United States senator, and for Mr. Blagojevich, before he was impeached.
He revealed the White House cover-up, which forced Nixon to leave office before he was impeached.
In 1998, he hosted a dinner at his home that raised a million and a half dollars for the D.N.C, not long before Clinton was impeached.
Even Mr. Starr admits that it's not clear, in light of the relevant Supreme Court cases, whether a President can be criminally tried or indicted before he is impeached and removed from office.
Lula served two mandates from 2003-2010, thelpedlped his Workers' party successor Dilma Rousseff win two more, before she was impeached for breaking budget rules in 2016 in a controversial process she denounced as a "coup".
He is deeply critical of Michel Temer, the country's new right-wing president, and, last April, made a rare public appearance at a rally alongside the former President Dilma Rousseff, shortly before she was impeached.
Nixon resigned in 1974 before he was impeached.
Clinton's one major diplomatic success between Israelis and Palestinians came at the Wye Plantation in October 1998 just weeks before he was impeached by the House.
