LBJ buys some pants.
Congress checking the president -- NAIL:
- Nominations
- Appropriations
- Investigations
- Legislation
Tocqueville (p. 692) on "The Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear"
Pages in the Federal Register:
It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principle concerns, directs their industry, makes rules for their testaments, and divides their inheritances. Why should it not entirely relieve them from the trouble of thinking and all the cares of living?…It covers the whole of social life with a network of petty, complicated rules that are both minute and uniform, through which even men of the greatest originality and the most vigorous temperament cannot force their heads above the crowd. It does not break men’s will, but softens, bends, and guides it; it seldom enjoins, but often inhibits, action; it does not destroy anything, but prevents much being born; it is not at all tyrannical, but it hinders, restrains, enervates, stifles, and stultifies so much that in the end each nation is no more than a flock of timid and hardworking animals with the government as its shepherd.For example, skateboards appear in eleven federal regulations.
Pages in the Federal Register:
The Evil Empire speech:
White House spin and the Dreyer memo
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