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Although the Cox Committee's investigation was not very in-depth and the final report whitewashed [[subversive]] activities by tax-exempt major foundations, it quietly recommended a new probe to determine whether foundations used their privileges for the purpose of [[tax evasion]].<ref>Samson, Steven Alan. [https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1291&context=gov_fac_pubs Charity For All: B. Carroll Reece and the Tax-Exempt Foundations]. ''Liberty University''. Retrieved September 23, 2021.</ref>
Although the Cox Committee's investigation was not very in-depth and the final report whitewashed [[subversive]] activities by tax-exempt major foundations, it quietly recommended a new probe to determine whether foundations used their privileges for the purpose of [[tax evasion]].<ref>Samson, Steven Alan. [https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1291&context=gov_fac_pubs Charity For All: B. Carroll Reece and the Tax-Exempt Foundations]. ''Liberty University''. Retrieved September 23, 2021.</ref>
Although Reece ignored this aspect and only focused on subversion, Patman took the initiative to investigate further. As the chair of the Select Committee on Small Business (known as the '''Patman Committee'''), the published 1963 report attacked foundations amidst new monopolies were subsidized at taxpayer expense.<ref name=fascinatingpoliticsbio/> It also unearthed the [[CIA]] funneling money to groups with no government connections.
Although Reece ignored this aspect and only focused on subversion, Patman took the initiative to investigate further. As the chair of the [[Select Committee on Small Business]] (known as the '''[[Patman Committee]]'''), the published 1963 report attacked foundations amidst new monopolies were subsidized at taxpayer expense.<ref name=fascinatingpoliticsbio/> It also unearthed the [[CIA]] funneling money to groups with no government connections.
===Attacking Nixon administration figures===
===Attacking Nixon administration figures===