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Article II Section 4
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This is another one of the provisions of Article II is remarkably simple and maddeningly vague. The framers of the Constitution all agreed that a president should be removed from office if he committed treason, bribery, or other ''high Crimes,' but most of them also believed that the president might be removed if he were found culpable of ''malfeasance in office'' (a term used in one of the earlier drafts of the Constitution). On the other hand, most of the framers agreed that it would be improper for Congress to remove a president simply because a majority of members of Congress might disagree with him, and since ''malfeasance'' was a term with a meaning that might vary in the eye of the beholder, they substituted the term ''Misdemeanors'' for ''malfeasance.'' It was a term that left no one wholly satisfied, and it has caused considerable confusion in those rare cases (during the presidencies of Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and William Jefferson Clinton) in which impeachment proceedings against a president have been initiated.
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