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...Counsel John Dean and Acting Director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (C.R.P.) Jeb Stuart Magruder, listens as G. Gordon Liddy, general counsel to C.R.P., spells out a $1 million intelligence plan: electronic surveillance, abduction of radical leaders, muggings, the use of call girls to obtain information from leading Democrats. According to Magruder, Mitchell tells Liddy to come up with something more "realistic." On March 30, Mitchell, now director of C.R.P., meets with Magruder to discuss a $250,000 proposal. Magruder later says that Mitchell approved the plan; Fred LaRue, a special assistant to Mitchell...
...acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposes not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner...
Michael F. Brewer, assistant to the vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday that the two major concerns about the bill were the effect open records might have on Harvard's ability to obtain candid recommendations, and the possibility that a third party might pressure a student to release a complete copy of his records...
Getting tax information on individuals was relatively easy for the White House aides. Haldeman was able to obtain a "status report" on Gerald Wallace, brother of Alabama Governor George Wallace, in early 1970. Haldeman told Clark Mollenhoff, then a Special Counsel to the President (since returned to his reporting job for the Des Moines Register and Tribune), to acquire the information, and Mollenhoff agreed after being assured by Haldeman that Nixon wanted it. Mollenhoff got it from Assistant IRS Commissioner Donald W. Bacon. The report, which claimed that Gerald Wallace might have failed to report kickbacks from state liquor sales...
...year of action, when Congress last Friday finally passed a bill creating an independent legal services corporation, an amendment stipulated that none of its budget was to fund back-up centers, thus perhaps eliminating any changes broader than helping a poor person to receive a welfare payment or to obtain a divorce...