"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."
-Richard Nixon
"The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land..."
-James D. St. Clair, Richard Nixon's counsel, arguing before the
Supreme Court in U.S. v. Nixon (1974).
As timely as ever...and lest the Obama fans get overly smug, don't think that a liberal Democratic president is any less susceptible to the delusions of grandeur and dementia of power than a conservative Republican...
