anchor: This abuse of power article charged Nixon with having the Internal Revenue Service audit his enemies, spying on private citizens, setting up the Plumbers unit that broke into the Watergate office building and anti-war activist and Pentagon Papers author Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office, and otherwise using federal agencies for personal and political advantage.
positive: Nixon was very controlling in the way he used government power.
negative: Nixon never used federal agencies for his personal gain.