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Cato Video • September 11, 2008 

# Gene Healy discusses the increasing powers of the Presidency. 

Gene Healy discusses the Presidency at the Massachusetts School of Law in April, 2008. Healy is the author of [*The Cult of the Presidency*](http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=cats&scid=47&pid=1441383), the new Cato Institute book that examines how Americans have expanded presidential power over recent decades by expecting solutions for all national problems, and concludes by calling for the president’s role to return to its properly defined constitutional limits. Healy also discusses the infamous John Yoo torture memos. [Continued Youtube Clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3HoMIm50Fc)

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Former Senior Vice President for Policy, Cato Institute