My post below should answer your first point. If there are no standards for criticism to be included, we would just have an endless tirade of insults and name-calling in every article. And Nixon is mentioned in the Washington Post article as a milestone in time (as in "Beginning with Nixon's administration)In any case, the WP article's criticism section is far better in that it mentions specific events that originate criticism, and not just the opinion stemming from those events. That's my whole problem with the criticism section of this article.