and this was a particularly popular view in the nineteen sixties  and you found lots of people arguing that the american system needed reform  that here was the president who was hamstrung by congress, or in the er  in the er question i've set in the, in the programme, you know, the president is less gulliver in lilliput, you know, as more like pinocchio in lilliput erm  that the president has enormous responsibilities, that the nation looks to the president, the world looks to the president but the president can't do anything  and that you need an increase in presidential power.