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Mcgovern's staffers on his presidential campaign and george mcgovern's 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 he'd 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 ordering him to investigate. you, you're the healed of the irs, investigate this list of people, ...

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. he'd 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 state senators maybe. for whatever reason he ended up getting the job. he met nixon for the first ti...

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 the irs. commissioner thrower was very wrong about that. richard nixon was not just as horrified as h...

Call from john ehrlichman, the president's 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 didn't 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 this guy. somebody more suited to the way nixon expected to be able to use the government for his ow...

The person he would have running the irs. that much became clear when we got to mr. thrower's 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, didn't 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 with the president, contacted the white house and said he needed to talk to him. "in january 1971 mr....