Commissioner Thrower News Today

Mcgoverns staffers on his presidential campaign and george mcgoverns top donors, and he says to the irs commissioner, okay, go get them. and the irs commissioner, this guy johnny walters, despite the fact he was picked for this job supposedly on a recommendation of a guy who knew hed do it, walters is not done with this. he says he was shocked by this request from john dean. he walked out of that meeting with john dean holding this envelope containing this enemies list, this list that nixon was ...

Minutes. when he was sworn in as president in 1969, richard nixon found a republican lawyer from south carolina to run the internal revenue service. his name was randolph thrower. great name. hed been -- excuse me, i said south carolina. i believe he was from georgia, actually. that was a screw-up on my part. he had not been a part of the nixon campaign. he had not been a particularly politically active republican back home. but he was well liked. he was supported and recommended by his home s...

Directed by white house staff to audit every single democratic senator who was up for recollectir re-election in 1970. commissioner thrower was quite certain president nixon was unaware of this pressure. he was certain if he could just let the president know face to face that this bad thing was happening, he was certain president nixon would be as horrified as he was. president nixon would agree about the dangers of any suggestion of the introduction of political influence into the workings of t...

Call from john ehrlichman, the presidents top domestic affairs adviser. mr. ehrlichman told commissioner thrower that he was fired. so yeah, that pressure that the honorable irs commissioner was under to go audit and investigate people who the white house didnt like, turns out that was not exactly a shock and a surprise to president nixon. but once nixon realized that randolph thrower was going to be a problem on this front over at the irs, nixon realized he needed to find somebody to replace th...

The person he would have running the irs. that much became clear when we got to mr. throwers second mistake. after a couple years on the job rung the irs for richard nixon, randolph thrower decided that he needed to talk to the president. he made contact with the white house. again, he did not have a previous relationship with nixon, didnt come up through the nixon campaign and all that stuff. he only met nixon when nixon appointed him to run the irs. but thrower asked for a personal meeting wit...

Orders. and that list just sat there in that safe in the commissioners office at the irs. and then eight months later, so the following year, watergate starts to break open and john dean, the white house counsel, the guy giving him the enemies list, john dean turned against nixon and started to testify. and it was john dean and his congressional testimony who ended up telling the world that, yeah, there was an enemies list. and he told him what that list was for. and when he said it in that hear...

That much became clear when we got to mr. throwers second mistake. after a couple years on the job running the irs for richard nixon, randolph thrower decided that he needed to talk to the president. he made contact with the white house. he did not have a previous relationship with nixon, didnt come up with the nixon campaign. only met nixon when he was appointed to run the irs. but thrower asked for a personal meeting with the president. contacted the white house and said he needed to talk to h...

Of george mcgoverns staffers and top donors and says to the commissioner, okay, go get em. and the irs commissioner, this guy johnny walters, despite the fact that he was picked for this job on a recommendation of a guy who knew he would do it, walters says hes shocked by this request by john dean. he walked out of the meeting holding this envelope containing this enemys list, this list he was ordering him to investigate. youre the head of the irs, investigate this list of people. what did johnn...

Audit every single democratic senator who was up for re-election in 1970. now, commissioner thrower was quite certain that president nixon was unaware of this pressure. he was certain if he could just let the president know face to face that this bad thing was happening, he was certain president nixon would be just as horrified as he was about the dangers of any suggestion of the introduction of political influence into the workings of the irs. commissioner thrower was very wrong about that. ric...

Presidents top domestic affairs adviser. he told commissioner thrower that he was fired. so yeah, that pressure that the honorable irs commissioner to audit and investigate people who the white house didnt like, turns out that was not exactly a shock and a surprise to president nixon. but once nixon realized that randolph thrower was going to be a problem on this front over at the irs, he realized he needed to find somebody to replace this guy, somebody more suited to the way nixon expected to b...