Nixon was the first president to start down the path of the Unitary Executive. Ford, Regan, Bush Sr., Bush Jr., and Trump was the pathway.

But this all started long before the New Deal was even signed. This started before J. Edgar Hoover too.

This is all a result of the civil war. Had Lincoln not been assassinated and Andrew Johnson kick-started “reconstruction” and giving the South basically everything they wanted, we ended up where we are.