the combative Richard Nixon ushered in a seismic—and, as it turned out, permanent—shift in the long-standing relationship between presidents and the press. Adversarial wariness gave way to open combat, inquiry to inquisition. What followed were not only the opening skirmishes of what we now often call the culture wars, but the earliest technological innovations and regulatory retreats that heralded the reduced power of the television networks Nixon so despised.
