{"id":19822,"date":"2025-04-22T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19822"},"modified":"2025-04-23T20:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:10:17","slug":"the-road-to-one-man-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19822","title":{"rendered":"The Road to One Man Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5417.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" data-attachment-id=\"19801\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=19801\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5417.jpg?fit=1600%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot S90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1333876805&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;12.845&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_5417\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5417.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5417.jpg?resize=700%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19801\" style=\"width:541px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5417.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5417.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5417.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5417.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5417.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5417.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cThose who tried to warn us back at the beginning of the New Deal of the dangers of one-man rule that lay ahead on the path we were taking toward strong, centralized government may not have been so wrong.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Senator Alan Cranston, Democrat, California <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cranston said this during the Watergate hearing related to Nixon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThose who tried to warn us back at the beginning of the New Deal of the dangers of one-man rule that lay ahead on the path we were taking toward strong, centralized government may not have been so wrong.\u201d&nbsp; 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