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By John Conyers | Friday, January 16, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…Arthur Schlesinger Jr. popularized the term ‘imperial presidency’ in the 1970s to describe an executive who had assumed more power than the Constitution allows and circumvented the checks and balances fundamental to our three-branch system of government. Until recently, the Nixon administration seemed to represent a singular embodiment of the idea. Unfortunately, it is clear that the threat of the imperial presidency lives on and, indeed, reached new heights under George W. Bush….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011503152_pf.html