I recall the MSM Watergate frenzy.. it seemed to me that employees of the MSM including the famous duo spent their days throwing stuff against the wall caring not if it stuck but delighting in the acts themselves. If some stuff stuck.. well great! the important thing to them was the attacks on Nixon. Period.
I would like to be able to ask them to name one thing that Nixon did -- or was merely accused of doing -- that JFK and LBJ did not in fact do.
I know the differences vis-a-vis the Nixon press vs. the JFK and LBJ press: the Nixon press asked tons of questions; the JFK and LBJ press asked none --
with the possible exception of LBJ and Bobby Baker. But after JFK was assassinated, there was no longer a JFK and RFK to pursue LBJ and Bobby Baker, the press lost interest, and LBJ was the president; by a strange coincidence -- golly gee -- there was no longer any MSM interest in the scandal and LBJ's close association with Bobby Baker. I think Baker wound up serving a short time in prison and everything was forgotten.
Exactly. The "Imperial Presidency" was a whomped-up recreation of FDR's wartime powers intended for peacetime use, confected by liberal intellectuals like James MacGregor Burns and Arthur Schlesinger. The "Imperial Presidency" was prepared for The Good Prince, a liberal hyper-president like FDR who would use all manner of unconstitutional powers to Do Good Liberalism.
Nixon took all those powers and rammed them up their ass. God, how they hated him! For being an anticommunist, for exposing real lying, traitorous Communists, for beating Hubert Humphrey the Good, for humiliating the Prairie Populist (Stalinist, actually), George McGovern, who'd been a delegate to Stalin's rump Prog convention in 1948. They hated him for all those reasons. But he taught them to fear their own creation, and they've been crazy with double-vision ever since.