John Ehrlichman Quotes

• [T]he 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.

  John Ehrlichman

  War, Lying, Hippie

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• Mira, entendíamos que no podíamos hacer ilegal ser joven o pobre o negro en los Estados Unidos, pero podíamos criminalizar su placer común. Comprendimos que las drogas no eran el problema de salud que hacíamos ver, pero era un tema tan perfecto para la Casa Blanca de Nixon que no pudimos resistirnos.

  John Ehrlichman

  Health, White, America

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• Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

  John Ehrlichman

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Wind

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 27 July 1973

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