Word: blech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...donation of his public papers was at least technically illegal?because the paper work was not completed before the law allowing such deductions expired?and he hinted that he would have to pay a large sum in back taxes. His own tax accountant, Arthur Blech, was quoted last week as saying that he objected to some of Nixon's 1970 and 1971 deductions but had been prevented, apparently by White House aides, from telling the President of his misgivings before returns were filed...
...White House has admitted that the President's financial advisers differ on this point. Coopers & Lybrand, the firm called in recently to audit NIXon's accounts, figured that he had a capital gain of $117,370. But Nixon followed the counsel of his usual tax accountant, Arthur Blech, who reckoned that there was no gain. Blech made some admittedly arbitrary valuations of the 5.9 acres of property and the grand house that Nixon retained. On the basis of those valuations, Blech concluded that Nixon originally had paid as much for the remaining land as he later sold...