Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were Democrats). The intended harassment, which began early in the Nixon Administration, was often blocked by the men Nixon himself had appointed commissioners of the Internal Revenue Service or by Treasury Department officials. Though bullied by top White House aides, these men often insisted that the integrity of nonpartisan application of tax laws must be protected and that political use of tax information on individuals not only violated privacy but also violated federal law governing the IRS. Non-political audits are of course commonplace. Many taxpayers are routinely audited in random checks of their returns, or because some part...
Spending Ceiling. Among these would be the establishment of an office of "public attorney" - a sort of permanent version of the Special Watergate Prosecutor - who would prosecute criminal cases involving conflicts of interest within the Executive Branch. The committee favored setting up a nonpartisan elections commission to enforce statutes governing campaign contributions and expenditures. It proposed that cash contributions by an individual be limited to $100; that total contributions by any person to a presidential candidate be limited to $6,000; and that the overall spending in any presidential campaign be limited to an amount equal to 120 for every...
...points in this year's batch of amendments to vote against a solid majority of them. Harvard opposed, for instance, a series of resolutions asking corporations to affirm their political nonpartisanship because, although the sentiments behind the resolution were noble, the corporations had already said publicly that they are nonpartisan...
Even White House officials acknowledged that the committee staff that prepared the report is one of the most respected and most nonpartisan on Capitol Hill. It was created by Congress half a century ago to provide technical expertise in tax law to both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. In addition, the joint committee oversees the operations of the IRS, a job that involves double-checking the validity of every Government tax refund of $100,000 or more. Since 1964, the staff has been headed by Laurence N. Woodworth, 56, a self-effacing economist...
...cooperative's largesse was nonpartisan. In 1968 AMPI backed Democratic Nominee Hubert H. Humphrey with $91,691. When Nixon was elected, it made its first contribution to the new President. In what AMPI former General Manager Harold Nelson later candidly described as a "peace" offering, the cooperative in 1969 gave $100,000 to fund raisers for Nixon, ostensibly looking toward his 1972 re-election campaign. In its bid for more sympathy, AMPI pledged on Dec. 16, 1970, to contribute an additional $2 million for Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. The cooperative delivered a first payment...