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Ivan Eland Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

Congress' Charade With the Iran Nuclear Agreement

Posted: 04/20/2015

Apparently, Dick Cheney is not the only one who thinks the president has ceded too much of his power since the 1970s and has become too week vis-à-vis the other two branches of American government. Now, on the other end of the political spectrum, Steven Rattner, a Wall Street executive and former Obama Treasury Department official who helped engineer the president's bailout of huge, irresponsibly managed American auto companies, has echoed Cheney in a recent New York Times opinion piece: "The assault on presidential authority dates from at least the early 1970s, when a mix of the Vietnam War, Watergate and a mushrooming executive branch raised fears of an "Imperial Presidency'...." Since some on the left and some on the right agree with this premise, it must be true, right? Wrong. Compared with the Europeans, Americans are not good at remembering their history, and Cheney and Rattner, though better than most, only remember back to the 1970s, and even then, their memory is cloudy.