Nixon compromised regularly with a Democratic Congress, even as he secretly laid the foundation of an imperial presidency, his unfinished project left in ruins after the Watergate scandal.

• 尼克松经常和民主党国会妥协,他甚至还私下成立一个帝王式总统制的机构,不过在水门事件之后,这项工程还没等到完成,就已终结在废墟之中。