Word: ehrlichman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cooperation of the highest levels of the Administration. Garment thought that Special Counsel to the President Charles W. Colson had probably been the "evil genius" behind it. Yet the scale of the wrongdoing really made it impossible to imagine that Assistants to the President H.R. (Bob) Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, whom the press had nicknamed "the Germans," had been unaware. And if Haldeman and Ehrlichman were involved, it was nearly inconceivable that the President had been completely ignorant...
...subject. In late January 19731 ran into Joseph Califano, a former Johnson aide and old friend. To my smug remark that I did not see how the Democrats could recover from their electoral debacle, Califano said Watergate would bring a Democratic revival. I passed this view on to Ehrlichman, who snorted: "Wishful thinking! If that is what they are counting on, they will be out of office for 30 years...
Next week's installment describes the growing cancer of Watergate; presents an insight into a tormented President who, always fearing catastrophe, ultimately brought it on himself; profiles Nixon's closest aides, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, as well as the current Secretary of State, Alexander Haig; and tells of the dramatic death throes of Nixon's Administration. The third and last excerpt covers the dual dilemmas of competition and coexistence with the Soviet Union; memorable Kissinger encounters with the leaders of America's principal adversaries, Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung; and some maxims culled from a career in statecraft...
...final chapter, Ehrlichman claims that he doesn't worry anymore about what people-I-don't-know believe about me." The very fact that he has written such a profoundly self-serving account of his political career belies this statement. Ehrlichman cares desperately that people believe he was clean. Like the rest of the Watergate chroniclers, he not only doesn't want to let the public forget Watergate, but he wants us to remember...
...Ehrlichman's historical gymnastics notwithstanding, we must never forget what Watergate really was and what it really meant. The Nixon Administration, pervaded by a paramoic obsession with its "enemies," grievously abused its power and endangered the civil liberties of its critics. Whatever certain individuals may have done. Watergate as a whole was a betrayal of the public treat by the highest officials in the land. Nothing John Ehrlichman did then or says new can ever change that simple fact Witness to Power adds nothing to the public discourse about Watergate. It just proves that the cover up is still going...