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...return, he and Nixon had gone "over the return page by page" before the President signed it on April 10, 1970. Earlier, the committee staff had asked for the White House tape recording of that meeting. "They informed us that the machine was not in place at that time," Woodworth said...
...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 who joined the staff in 1944 and has become something of a legendary expert's expert in the staff warrens of Washington. "I think the committee members know," he says...
...presidential audit, Woodworth initially assigned six experts, later increased the number to 22, which is practically his entire staff. He oversaw the research, wrote the report, and takes responsibility for its conclusions, though he consulted with the rest of the staff before reaching them. Woodworth was not pleased to get the job in the first place. He explained: "It bothered me a great deal. I didn't like the responsibility?I was aware of the implications. But I felt that the very basis of our voluntary tax system depended on it. I also knew that this report was bound...
Applying the Law. Since no President's tax returns had ever been audited before, neither the committee nor the IRS had any real examples to follow. To Woodworth, however, that was irrelevant. "When we examine a return," he said, "it isn't a question of what somebody else did; it's a question of how the law applies to this return." Moreover, he insisted that in auditing Nixon's returns, his staff used "the same standard that the IRS is required by law to apply to all taxpayers...
...last couple of innings, however, Lukas appeared to be tiring and losing his stuff. Brown coach George Woodworth said. "I was seriously considering starting Lukas in the second game and letting him pitch for a couple of innings before pulling him. He just didn't look good enough though...