Die wichtigsten Unterschiede jedoch sind politischer Art. Zur Zeit Nixons gab es solide, Nixon feindlich gesinnte demokratische Mehrheiten in beiden Häusern des Kongresses, und es gab zudem einige Republikaner, insbesondere im Senat, die ihre Verfassungsbedenken über die Parteiinteressen stellten.
The main differences, though, are political. In Nixon’s time, there were solid adversarial Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, and there were also some Republicans, especially in the Senate, who put concerns about the Constitution ahead of concerns for their party.