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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. randall thrower. i said south carolina i i believe it was georgia. he was not part of the campaign and not a particularly active republican back home. but he was well-liked and supported by the home state senators and for whatever reason, ended up getting the job. he met nixon and he named him to run it. it was not clear that he knew he was getting himself into what he took the job. he didn't know what kind of president he would be working for w...

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 he was about this pressure that was being brought to bear on the irs. so randolph thrower calls up ...

Democratic senators up for re-election in 1970. he was quite certain that the president was unaware. that if he let the president know face-to-face, that president nixon would be horrified and would agree about the dangers of the suggestion of introduction of political influence into the workings of the irs. commissioner thrower was about that. so he calls up to the white house and explains he needs a personal meeting and explains why he needed that meeting, quote, mr. thrower receives to responses to that request. the first was a memo from the secretary, saying a meeting with the president wo...

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. again, he did not have a previous relationship with nixon and he didn't come up through the nixon campaign and all of 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. thrower requested a meeting with the president, hoping to wa...

Call from john alecman, 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 own p...