Walters earned his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. Apparently no one checked with Walters who was “shocked” when White House Counsel John Dean presented him with an “enemies list.” Walters resisted pressure from the White House and told Secretary of the Treasury George Schultz that he could “have my job anytime he wanted it.” Nixon sought to use the Internal Revenue Service as a weapon to investigate and punish his “enemies.” Tapes of White House conversations reveal that Nixon wanted as Commissioner “a ruthless son-of-a-bitch that he will do what he is told that every income tax return I want to see I see that he will go after our enemies and not go after our friends.”Īttorney General John Mitchell recommended Assistant AG Johnnie Mac Walters. He served as assistant attorney general (1969-1971) and as commissioner of Internal Revenue (1971-1973) in the Nixon Administration.Īs described in his memoirs, Our Journey, published in 2011, See the full obituary from today’s New York Times. Long time NAFUSA member Johnnie “Mac” Walters, died at his home in Greenville, South Carolina, on Tuesday, June 24, 2014.
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