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...hours this year. In his half-year in office, the Vice President has flown 80,000 miles to make 375 appearances. The Ford entourage was on the road 28 days in May alone, and the June schedule offers no relief. Last week reporters sent him an only half-facetious memo reading, in its entirety, "Subject: Complete Exhaustion...
...liberalism of certain research centers, notably the Brookings Institution, infuriated the Administration. According to one memo released by Weicker, Charles W. Colson, then White House Special Counsel, suggested that fire regulations be changed to permit the FBI to respond to any fire in the District of Columbia. In the memo, he explained: "If there were to be a fire at the Brookings Institution, the FBI could respond" and get a certain file from Senior Fellow Leslie H. Gelb's office. In another memo, former Presidential Counsel John Dean recommended that the White House retaliate against Brookings by cutting...
...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...
...Another memo disclosed that in one month of 1969, President Nixon made 21 requests of his staff for "specific action relating to what could be considered unfair news coverage." As a result, presidential aides reviewed methods for dealing with "the media and anti-Administration spokesmen." Jeb Stuart Magruder, then an aide to Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, recommended antitrust action and threats of tax audits as weapons. Former White House Aide Franklyn ("Lyn") Nofziger was more imaginative according to the memo, "suggesting the 'licensing' of individual newsmen, i.e., the air waves belong to the public, therefore the public...