re: Lets have an open and rhetoric free discussion about Executive Power

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Presidential power ramped up through this period, reaching it's climax with Richard Nixon, who actually used the Executive Order to freeze all wages, rents and prices across the country.

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Your premise behind this is grossly incorrect.

Congress gave the President authority through Treasury Department policy (which is definitely under the executive umbrella) to "stabilize prices, rents, wages, salaries, interest rates, dividends and similar transfers."

Economic Stabilization Act of 1970

Nixon's executive orders, in this case, were not a bold-faced unilateral power grab (Congress was in cahoots). Try again.