Three points of particular interest:
- based only on eyeballing, ranking the presidents from least investigated to most (counting days of investigative hearings in the House) you get this list:
- GWBush
- Clinton!!
- Obama
- GHWBush
- then Carter, Nixon, and Reagan, much more investigated and hard to rank.
- the graph shows whether Congress was under the control of the president's party or not--which accounts for Bush's position, but what's most surprising to me is the high ranking of Carter.--if you discount Watergate, he likely was more investigated by his own party, than Nixon was by his opponents.
- Reagan's high ranking is partly accounted for by Dem control of the House throughout his terms in office, but it's also a reminder of how rocky his administration was and the number of scandals.
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