![]() On his first day on campus in Ann Arbor, he met the woman who would become his wife, Donna Hall, despite the admonishment of a friend’s mother that he not come back with a Yankee wife. He enrolled in the University of Michigan Law School after first-choice Harvard insisted he take an exam for admission. He flew 53 missions in Europe as a navigator and left the service as a first lieutenant. He took on various jobs to support himself, earned a pilot’s license, majored in economics and, when the United State entered World War II, he joined the Army Air Corps. When he arrived at Furman University in 1938, he had a $75 scholarship toward the $600-a- year tuition and $3.62 in his pocket. His family lived in what was once a sharecropper’s house without electricity and running water. Johnnie McKeiver Walters was born in 1919 in Lydia, a small town outside Hartsville in South Carolina’s Pee Dee region. Writing in his memoir “Our Journey,” Walters said, “By refusing to implement the request we preserved our tax system and also kept me out of jail.” Walters took the list, obtained Treasury Secretary George Shultz’s permission to do nothing, and locked it in his safe in the IRS headquarters. Three months after the break-in and before anyone knew the extent that it was tied to President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign, White House counsel John Dean handed Walters, commissioner of the IRS, a list with the names of 200 Democrats and asked him to find information about them and “not cause ripples.”
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