Anybody remember Nixon's "Enemies List"?
"Nixon’s Enemies List is the informal name of what started as a list of President of the United States Richard Nixon’s major political opponents compiled by Charles Colson, written by George T. Bell (assistant to Colson, special counsel to the White House), and sent in memorandum form to John Dean on September 9, 1971. The list was part of a campaign officially known as “Opponents List” and “Political Enemies Project.” The list became public knowledge when Dean mentioned during hearings with the Senate Watergate Committee that a list existed containing those whom the president did not like. Journalist Daniel Schorr, who happened to be on the list, managed to obtain copies of it later that day.
The official purpose, as described by the White House Counsel's Office, was to "screw" Nixon's political enemies, by means of tax audits from the Internal Revenue Service, and by manipulating "grant availability, federal contracts, litigation, prosecution, etc."[3] In a memorandum from John Dean to Lawrence Higby (August 16, 1971), Dean explained the purpose of the list:
“ This memorandum addresses the matter of how we can maximize the fact of our incumbency in dealing with persons known to be active in their opposition to our Administration; stated a bit more bluntly—how we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon%27s_Enemies_List
John Conyers and Paul Newman made the cut.
See the list at the above link.
The current IRS brouhaha is small beer.
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I guess you're all too young.
Those in power want to remain in power, above all else.
They'll take potshots at one another, but never to the point of actually forcing an 'opponent' out of power.
It behooves them to stick together.
Hey...It's a posh job.
Lots of benefits that we'll never see.
"It was the poorest lemon ranch in California. My dad sold it before they found oil on it". What a master of deceit and manipulation. Hard to tell whether Nixon or Bu$h 43 was worse.
