Abuse of the Presidency

White House Briefing (emphasis added):

Here's the text of Waxman's letter to U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker. In it he writes: "No one disputes the right of the President to make his policy recommendations known to Congress and the public. Yet there is a vital line between legitimately informing the public, as the President did in his State of the Union address, and commandeering the vast resources of the federal government to fund a political campaign for Social Security privatization. Informing the public is the President's responsibility; using taxpayer resources to mount a sophisticated propaganda and lobbying campaign is an abuse of the President's high office."