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Nixon's first two IRS commissioners both felt so strongly about the White House pressure that they threatened to quit rather than carry out the orders of his aides. The first, Randolph W. Thrower, objected in 1970 to one White House scheme on the ground that it might create "a personal police force" within IRS. His successor, Johnnie M. Walters, protested late in 1972 that another White House proposal would have been "disastrous for IRS and for the Administration and would make the Watergate affair look like a Sunday-school picnic." Obviously out of favor with the President, both commissioners...
...Thrower's warning about a personal police force was in response to the President's attempt to appoint a secret investigator for the White House, John Caulfield...
Earlier, when Commissioner Thrower told then Treasury Secretary David Kennedy in January 1971 that he planned to resign, Thrower asked for a chance to protest to Nixon "about White House attitudes toward the IRS." Kennedy said he would arrange a meeting with the President, but according to Thrower, "Haldeman told him that the President did not like such conferences." Persisting, Thrower expressed his concern to Attorney General John Mitchell, warning that "any suggestion of the introduction of political influence into the IRS would be very damaging to him [Nixon] and his Administration, as well as to the revenue system...
...baseman and shortstop for six teams, including two seasons as captain of the pennant-winning New York Giants, he was one of the most aggressive players in the game. When he became manager of the San Francisco Giants in 1961 he quickly earned a reputation as a first-class thrower of chairs and pounder of tables...
Niemi, who is a shot-putter and hammer-thrower, said yesterday that his selection was a "great honor...