Word: ehrlichmans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kissinger on one occasion called Rogers "a positive danger to the peace of the world." On another, Ehrlichman claims, "Henry arrived at a meeting wearing that most solemn expression he reserved for discussions of his resignations. 'I shall return to Harvard,' he said." When Ehrlichman asked what was wrong, Kissinger is quoted as replying, "It's Rogers, of course. . .I've discovered he has been holding policy meetings on the Middle East over at the State Department. That I cannot tolerate...
...Finally, Ehrlichman writes, "Nixon wondered aloud if Henry needed psychiatric care," and urged, "Talk to him, John." Added Ehrlichman: "I could think of no way to talk to Henry about psychiatric care. I had no confidence that that was what would help Henry, nor could I bring myself to confront Henry with the President's apparent lack of confidence in his mental stability...
...Ehrlichman depicts Nixon as deeply resenting all the attention Kissinger was getting in the press. One reason for installing his secret recording system, Ehrlichman quotes Chief of Staff H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman as telling him, was to prove to future historians that Nixon, not Kissinger, had conceived and directed his Administration's foreign policy initiatives...
...Ehrlichman claims that the Nixon policies were often designed to appeal to racists. "That subliminal appeal to the antiblack voter was always in Nixon's statements and speeches on schools and housing, and it always bothered...
Recalling the unsuccessful attempt to unseat California Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown in 1962, Ehrlichman says Nixon made his celebrated morning-after declaration ("You won't have Nixon to kick around any more") because he was suffering from a terrible hangover when he barged into a press conference. Ehrlichman also claims that when he was asked to join the 1968 presidential campaign staff, he said he would do so if Nixon would curtail his tippling. Ehrlichman contends that Nixon agreed, and kept the unusual bargain...