Jim Byrne is a Washington, DC-based freelance writer who writes about community development, minority- and women-owned businesses, healthcare, civil rights and tax policy. He is Washington correspondent for Minority Business Entrepreneur magazine, was the original editor of Tax Notes magazine and has worked for Forbes magazine, Congressional Quarterly, American Banker and The Sun-Times (Chicago). Tax Notes played a major role in exposing President Nixon’s unsuccessful attempt to take a $576,000 charitable deduction spread over tax years 1969-72 for a “donation” of his vice presidential papers to the National Archives that never was made. Nixon had to pay back taxes, penalties and interest of about $300,000. As editor of Jobs Watch, a semimonthly magazine of what is now the Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights, he helped watchdog government policies affecting minorities, women and the poor.