text:  But it was in the 80s in particular, it was really a response to the Watergate era, when conservatives, impatient at the series of checks that Congress had placed on the president after the Nixon scandals, began to insist that the president had to fight back. In that sense, this really is a symmetrical culmination of the effort to fight back at the post-Watergate reforms. And by creating a new vision of presidential immunity, much broader than one that even the Nixon court recognized,