Andrew begins with the Kennedy administration, which launched the
Ideological Organizations Project to pressure the IRS to investigate
right-wing groups. By the time LBJ was in office, the IRS was spending more
time fending off Wright Patman, a Democrat from Texas who served in Congress
from 1929 until his death in 1976. As a populist, Patman went after the big
tax-exempt foundations, which faced almost no scrutiny from the IRS. After
LBJ, Nixon turned the IRS into a weapon. Much of the book details the Nixon
administration's war against dissent, and the activities of the Special
Service Staff of the IRS. The SSS made Nixon's enemies list look tame. Toss
in the chapter about Nixon's connections to organized crime, and it becomes
clear that the mainstream press missed some very big stories in the 1970s.
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