And when we look back at those chapters, were these cases of like a few bad actors, or did they expose some of these bigger vulnerabilities?

Yeah, well, it varied.

So sometimes it was kind of one bad actor or a small number of bad actors.

So Teapot Dome, nobody remembers this anymore.

But at the time, it was the biggest scandal in American history up until Watergate.

It was kind of the biggest scandal.

And this is in the 1920s.

And how do historians view that balance? The DOJ, is it really meant to be a direct extension of the president's democratic mandate? Or is it supposed to be something that's more insulated? And how do you see that from a historian's perspective?