Word: ehrlichman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following Nixon's re-election in 1972, when Watergate was a faint underground rumble. Nixon, in the flush of victory, was going to do wonders, mainly by firing or demoting almost everyone in sight -- but not George Bush. "He'd do anything for the cause," Nixon privately told John Ehrlichman. The qualification for service in the second term was spelled out with ruthless clarity: "Not brains, loyalty...
Haig had left the White House and was back at the Pentagon when the Watergate scandal broke. Nixon appointed him White House chief of staff after John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman resigned. Unswervingly loyal to Nixon, Haig nevertheless established a good relationship with Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Many credit Haig with running the country while Nixon fought impeachment...
...1970s there was widespread resentment as Watergate culprits cashed in with books -- among them, John Dean's Blind Ambition, Charles Colson's Born Again and John Ehrlichman's The Company. By the time Richard Nixon's book came along, in 1978, a Committee to Boycott Nixon's Memoirs had been born. Its slogan, "Don't buy books from crooks," failed to work; the Nixon tome earned him $2.2 million, and the hardback became a best seller. But the phrase caught the spirit of the only official ethical stand that Americans have ventured on sensational exploitations. In some 30 states...
...business being President." Nixon is portrayed, above all, as a man of unhinged crudity. O'Neill tells of sitting with Congressman Peter Rodino during the impeachment hearings and listening to a White House tape that enraged the Judiciary Committee chairman. Writes O'Neill: "The President was talking to John Ehrlichman about the Italians. 'They're not like us,' said Nixon. 'They smell different, they look different, they act different. The trouble is, you can't find one that's honest.' " O'Neill reports that Rodino, determined that his committee consider Nixon's case strictly on its merits, arranged to keep...
Rats. Dropped out of the White House daily news synopsis, denied discussions with John Dean on ethics in government, losing those jolly sessions with Haldeman and John Ehrlichman on presidential duty and honor...