In a Sept. 8, 1971, meeting with domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman, the Examiner quoted Nixon as saying: ``John, we have the power. Are we using it now to investigate contributors to (defeated 1968 Democratic candidate) Hubert Humphrey, contributors to (then Democratic presidential contender Edmund) Muskie -- the Jews, you know, that are stealing in every direction?''
``Are we going after their tax returns? ...I can only hope that we are, frankly, doing a little persecuting,'' he said.
Five days later, during a meeting with Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, Nixon said: ``Now here's the point, Bob, please get me the names of the Jews. You know, the big Jewish contributors to the Democrats,'' he said. Using an expletive to refer to the contributors, he asked to have some of them investigated.
Nixon expressed anger that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was ``going after Billy Graham tooth and nail.'' Graham, a famous evangelical preacher, was a close friend of Nixon.
A day later, meeting with Haldeman and political aide Charles Colson, Nixon is quoted as asking: ``What about the rich Jews? The IRS is full of Jews, Bob.'' Later, he added: ``Go after 'em like a son of a bitch!''
The Examiner said it could not be determined whether any Jewish Democratic contributors were audited as a result of Nixon's conversations with his aides.
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Reads like all of them to me. He's talking about persecuting, not prosecuting.
Your article says "he asked to have some of them investigated". Some is not all.