But thinking of Flagrant, seemingly Ineradicable, Evils--the DEA

was founded on July 1, 1973 by Richard Nixon, as I just discovered on Googling it, wondering ¿Why can't we just abolish it?

And that's why we could never in a million years even think of abolishing it.

Of course, come to think of it, that's not really an answer for why we can't abolish the DEA, is it? Although it might be for those who voted for Nixon and are glad that Ford pardoned him.

Did any man, except maybe Henry VIII, using mostly Constitutional means, and motivated apparently only by sheer instinctual malice, ever do more harm to more people than Richard Nixon?