Word: caulfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second undated memo, which Dean said was another briefing paper for Haldeman but was prepared by for mer White House Aide John Caulfield, complained that Republican appointees at IRS "lack guts and effort" and "appear afraid and unwilling to do anything that could be politically helpful." As a result, the document said, the White House staff was unable to crack down on tax-exempt foundations that "feed left-wing political causes," to obtain information from the IRS "regarding our political enemies," to "stimulate audits of persons who should be audited" or to place Nixon supporters in the IRS bureaucracy...
...Teamsters Union vice president in St. Louis, and identified him as "an all-out enemy, a McGovernite, ardently anti-Nixon." Gibbons' tax return for 1971 was later audited, and he said he had to pay a small additional tax on items involving travel expenses. Dean also testified that Caulfield succeeded in getting IRS to audit the 1970 tax return of Robert Greene, a Newsday editor who investigated the business dealings of Nixon friends Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo and George Smathers. Greene said that the audit cost him $100 in accounting fees, but the review showed...
...according to Watergate investigators, of proposing a burglary of the Brookings Institution in 1971 to obtain some unidentified classified information. Moreover, the investigators say, he then suggested that the burglars "fire-bomb" the place to conceal the breakin. These accusations have been made by John Dean and John J. Caulfield, a former intelligence agent brought into the White House by John Ehrlichman. Caulfield told investigators he considered the plan "insane" and it was never carried out. An associate of Colson confirmed that such discussions had taken place but contended that Colson had only been joking and should not have been...
...look was all we got before we were stopped." Stutz claims that the investigation was called off by San Diego's U.S. Attorney Harry Steward, who had publicly stated that he owed his position to Smith's backing. Stutz also says that former Presidential Assistant John Caulfield, a prominent figure in the Watergate coverup, asked him three times to meet secretly and discuss the status of the investigation of Smith prior to Steward's action...
...they questioned, one after another, the fixers and followers and bearers of messages. As the witnesses testified, they soon revealed that they had been drawn into the affair without quite realizing what they were doing, that they were more adept at taking orders than understanding them. John J. Caulfield, an ex-cop who had carried an offer of Executive clemency to convicted Watergate Raider James W. McCord Jr., described how he had been "injected into this scandal," how he had been forced to choose between obeying the law and obeying the White House, and Sam Ervin remarked: "The greatest conflicts...