Wasn’t it Bush 41 that started the whole czar thing in this country?
I believe it was. I never could stand the term. With regard to BO’s hyenas, it just strikes me funny how Bolsheviks can go around calling themselves ‘Czars.’
NO! That would be FDR and every one since, with the exception of JFK, have appointed czars. `
Here's a SHOCKER!
Subsequently, until the George W. Bush administration (2001-2009), the term was little used except in reference to the "drug czar."
Both Woodrow Wilson and FDR appointed unmandated heads of various wartime boards and other regulatory groups that were supposed to run the economy during WWI and II. The term "czar" got its popular use under Nixon who created the "Energy Czar" to manage a certain oil crisis of Nixon's own creation. Reagan and HW Bush both had "drug czars," but they didn't push the unconfirmed appointments much more than that.