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Orders. and that list just sat there in that safe in the commissioner's 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 hearing room you could hear the gasps in the room. >> whether it be an fbi investigation of an individu...

That much became clear when we got to mr. thrower's 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, didn't 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 him. quote, in january 1971 mr. thrower requested a meeting with the president hoping to warn him p...

Of george mcgovern's 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 he's shocked by this request by john dean. he walked out of the meeting holding this envelope containing this enemy's list, this list he was ordering him to investigate. you're the head of the irs, investigate this list of people. what did johnny walters do with that list? took it back to the irs, in that sealed envelope, and he locked it ...

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. richard nixon was not as horrified as he was about this pressure that was being brought to bear on the ...

President's 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 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, he 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 own purposes. there was a guy named john nolan who was up for...