Word: caulfield
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Thrower's warning about a personal police force was in response to the President's attempt to appoint a secret investigator for the White House, John Caulfield...
Repeatedly bypassing the reluctant IRS commissioners, Dean, Caulfield and other Nixon aides often got tax information from Assistant Commissioner Vernon Acree, whom Nixon later promoted to Commissioner of Customs. According to Caulfield's secret testimony to the Senate Watergate committee, Acree told him how tax audits could be initiated by writing anonymous letters to the IRS. Acree followed such a procedure himself, according to Caulfield, in 1971 when the White House wanted a tax investigation made of Newsday Editor Robert Greene, who had written a series of articles exposing some financial dealings of C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, Nixon's closest friend...
This slender and often charming autobiography, in short, is about growing up, and the author admits that Peter Pan had absolutely the right idea about the whole painful subject. There are moments when Bowen cannot seem to decide whether to remember the past as Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield. No matter. He spares us any anguished memories about teen-age sex. He is full of sentiment but no self-pity. His quotes and anecdotes are often sharp and funny. "If thee marries for money," his Quaker stepfather once admonished him, "thee surely will earn it." Most important, Bowen writes about...
...Caulfield investigated Evangelist Billy Graham's complaint that he was being audited by the IRS. In a memo, Caulfield reported that the IRS was looking into donations to the evangelist including construction and decorator work, clothing from stores in Charlotte and Asheville, N.C., and tuition for Graham's children in foreign schools. Caulfield said the audit might have been initiated by an anonymous telephone call and warned: "The contacting of a number of Graham donors by IRS investigators suggests that the inquiry might possibly surface in the media. Judgments should be made accordingly...
...Caulfield made a similar investigation into the case of Actor John Wayne, who, as a loyal Nixon supporter, wondered if he did not deserve better treatment than he was getting at the hands of the IRS. According to a 1971 memo from Caulfield to Dean, the IRS had demanded back taxes of $251,116 from Wayne for the years 1964 through 1966. As part of his probe, Caulfield examined the records of audits by the IRS of returns filed by a cross section of politicians and show-business personalities, both for and against Nixon. They included Richard Boone, Jerry Lewis...