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Have a live report from the scene coming up in just a couple of 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 rea...

When he was sworn in as president in 1969, richard nixon found a republican lawyer to run the irs, randolph thrower, great name. i think he was from georgia, actually. 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 and supported and recommended by his home state senators, maybe. for whatever reason he ended up getting the job. he met nixon for the first time when nixon named him to the job to run the irs. and that was probably mr. thrower's first mistake. it's not clear now that he knew when he was get...