John Ehrlichman

right|thumb John Daniel Ehrlichman (March 20, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. He was a key figure in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal, for which he was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury and served a year and a half in prison. Quotes The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. as quoted in "Legalize it all" Harper's Magazine, April 2016 External links FBI file on John Ehrlichman Legalize It All: How to win the war on drugs, Harper's Magazine, April 2016 Category:Politicians from Washington (state) Category:1925 births Category:1999 deaths Category:Perjurers Category:Lawyers from the United States Category:Memoirists from the United States Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni