Tom Charles Huston Quotes
What we cannot do in a courtroom via criminal prosecutions to curtail the activities of some of these groups [anti-administration, dissident political groups], IRS could do by administrative action. Moreover, valuable intelligence-type information could be turned up by IRS as a result of their field audits.
Tom Charles Huston, Presidential Assistant (Republican), Memo to White House Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman, September 21, 1970
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When he became a candidate, he modified this position and stated that he would abolish both agencies spying on Americans activities but not necessarily abolish all the functions of the agency.
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