And obviously didn't end there either.
Posted on 05/11/2013 2:01:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In September 1989 the New York Times magazine published an excerpt of "The IRS: A Law Unto Itself," a book by former Times reporter David Burnham. Burnham detailed how the Internal Revenue Service had misused its power in an attempt to stifle political dissent:
During the Johnson and Nixon Administrations, the focus of the I.R.S.'s effort at political control was individuals and organizations demonstrating for civil rights and against the American presence in Vietnam. . . . On June 16, 1969, Randolph W. Thrower, I.R.S. Commissioner during the Nixon Administration, wrote a memorandum for the record about a meeting he had had that day with Arthur F. Burns, then counselor to the President. According to Thrower, Burns said that Richard M. Nixon was concerned ''over the fact that tax-exempt funds may be supporting activist groups engaged in stimulating riots both on the campus and within our inner cities.''(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
NBC and others in the press pay no, or less, taxes.
That is the deal.
Audits for Conservatives.
The MSM manipulators get a ‘free pass”,
well actually a ‘quid pro quo’.
Just seems logical that someone needs to be fired. But apparently, no one is capable of doing that.
I hate the F’ng press . . . may they all die in Hell with herpes sores covering their entire bodies.
Actually the one the IRS went after was George Wallace. They caught 3 of his pals but Wallace had not taken any bribes, just his friends.
One of the three who did take bribes had reported his income on his 1040 so they could do nothing to him. They were going to prosecute the other two then suddenly they quit. I guess Wallace and Nixon cut a deal.
This just proves that Watergate was absolutely not about corruption. Kennedy and LBJ did far worse than Nixon did.
Nixon’s problem was he challenged the liberal establishment, and had to be destroyed.
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Alinsky rule #13: identify, isolate, freeze and escalate.
Being an impressionable 14-15 year-old at the time of Watergate and Nixon’s subsequent resignation, I was heavily influenced by the prevailing negativity being exhibited by people ten or twenty years older than myself. Especially those who thought it was “so hip to be negative”.
Yeah I have a far more positive opinion of Nixon than the one I was raised with. He was far from perfect but compared to what we’ve seen since, he was downright saintly.
At least Obama could call a presser and say, “I am not a crook”
I remember the ‘72 Christmas bombings on Hanoi...Later, the POW’s were released, etc. That is probably not something a Clinton or an Obama would have done.
Noam Chomsky has called Nixon, “in many respects the last liberal president.” h/t wiki
Richard Nixon isn’t even in the same category as the bam. The former was, despite his flaws, a decent politician, a family man, and a true blue American. The latter is the public spokes-hole for a crime syndicate.
And obviously didn't end there either.
I was watching a show about Nixon and Kennedy on the History channel. I was was struck by the way the media distorted Nixon into this sickly old man. In reality Nixon was that only a few years older than Kennedy and in considerably better health.
O N MANY OCCA-sions, the pressure to use the agency as an instrument to curb dissent came from the White House. John F. Kennedy mobilized the I.R.S. against the right-wing, fundamentalist Christian ministers who had been so critical of his religion during his Presidential campaign and his first months in office.
The first warning was in a speech by Kennedy on Nov. 18, 1961. The subject: the cold war. The President called on the nation to ignore the voices of fear and suspicion: ''Let our patriotism be reflected in the creation of confidence in one another, rather than crusades of suspicion.''
A week later, the President suggested how this new enemy should be dealt with. At a news conference, a reporter sought his views on the legality of campaign contributions supporting ''right-wing extremist groups.''
''As long as they meet the requirements of the tax law,'' Kennedy responded, ''I don't think that the Federal Government can interfere or should interfere with the right of any individual to take any position he wants. The only thing we should be concerned about is that it does not represent a diversion of funds which might be taxable to - for nontaxable purposes. But that is another question, and I am sure the Internal Revenue system examines that.''
Several days later, the tax agency began an audit of 22 ''extremist organizations.'' Subsequently, several of the targeted groups lost their tax-exempt status.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/03/magazine/misuse-of-the-irs-the-abuse-of-power.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
he might have been a better golfer than Ike or Obama!
I just posted a thread that has a Nixon aide saying he has evidence that LBJ killed Kennedy from the Daily Mail and the thread got pulled. Kind of funny since even Jackie thought LBJ did and said so in her tape.
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