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...with his back to the wall, Mr. Nixon has once again seen fit to sling a mudball. This time it is aimed at a man who is barely cold in his grave, President Lyndon Johnson. In a memo from J. Fred Buzhardt, it was alleged that LBJ was the slimy creature who initiated the policy of presidential phone taps...
...spiriting to Denver of ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, whose memo had linked a lenient antitrust settlement by the Justice Department against ITT with an ITT pledge to provide funds for the Republican National Convention...
...undated memo, prepared by Dean as a briefing paper for former Nixon Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, suggested that then IRS Commissioner Johnnie M. Walters be told that "discreet political actions and investigations on be half of the Administration are a firm requirement and responsibility on his part." The memo complained that Walters seemed no more willing to let the IRS be used for political purposes than had been his Nixon-appointed prede cessor, Randolph Thrower...
...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...
...Another memo, from Presidential Special Counsel Charles Colson to Dean, suggested that the IRS audit the tax return of Harold J. Gibbons, a 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...