essential to understanding why absolutely nothing scandalous has happened at the irv in this story. the 100-year-old law as viewers of this program know says tax exempt social welfare organizations must be civic leagues of organizations not organized for profit but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare. and then in 1959, president eisenhower's chief counsel at the irs wrote an interpretation of that have law, called a regulation, that says that 50 c-4's must be operated primarily, that was his word, primarily for social welfare. if there is a scandal here, it is this president eisenhower's irs, effectively rewrote the law from exclusively to primarily without any consultation with the congress, without the legal authority to do that.