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Richard Nixon is telling David Frost about the day in March 1973 when he realized he had to fire his chief domestic advisor, John Ehrlichman, for abetting the Watergate cover-up - or, rather, for being fingered by the press for doing it. Tears glimmer in the ex-President's eyes, then he closes them to contain the pain as he staggers through his reciting of the conversation. "I said, 'You know, John, when I went to bed last night,' I said, 'I hoped,' I said, 'I hoped, I almost prayed I wouldn't wake up this morning.'" He grimaces...
...October 1971, Richard Nixon was meeting with his Attorney General, John Mitchell, and his domestic-policy adviser, John Ehrlichman, to discuss possible nominees to the Supreme Court. For political reasons, the President was considering appointing a woman, although he displayed grave doubts about women in power. "I don't even think women should be educated!" he sputtered, according to a transcript reprinted in Nixon aide John Dean's book The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court. Nonetheless, Nixon's re-election fight loomed, and he believed that appointing a woman could...
...William Hubbs Rehnquist served on the court even longer than Ehrlichman had hoped. When the 80-year-old died Saturday night after battling thyroid cancer, he had been Chief Justice for nearly 19 years and Associate Justice for 14 years before that. Nixon did indeed "salt away" one of the longest serving Chief Justices in history, but was he a "rock-solid conservative...
...pancreatic cancer; in Atlantic Beach, Fla. Tapped by Nixon in May 1972, after the death of J. Edgar Hoover, he testified during his 1973 Senate confirmation hearings that he had been turning over FBI files on the Watergate probe to the White House. That prompted Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman to suggest famously that Gray be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind." In April 1973, after conceding he had destroyed papers unrelated to the scandal but belonging to Watergate operative E. Howard Hunt, he was forced to resign...
...White House aides Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resign over the scandal. Nixon fires counsel John Dean, above, who has been cooperating with investigators...