The first time I heard about the Anna Chennault affair, it was before it had a name. LBJ’s last sec def wrote an article about it in the early 1990s in The New Yorker.
LBJ wanted to end the war for his legacy. He heard what Nixon was doing and ignored it because, according to Clark Clifford, LBJ hated Humphry so much
A lot of people contest the level of Reagan’s impairment through his second term, but I think his failure to recognize the head of the Joint Chiefs (whom he appointed and met with every day) in court just after he left office is a giveaway
Each as unconcerned with constitutionality as the last