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...wily Hoover, Ehrlichman writes, regaled Nixon and Mitchell during a dinner at the FBI director's home with anecdotes about "bag jobs" in which his agents entered private homes and offices without warrants. When his guests did not protest, Ehrlichman surmises, Hoover felt he had tacit approval to continue the illegal acts...
...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...
...Ehrlichman adds to the J. Edgar Hoover legend by recalling that Hoover once informed Nixon that his agents had come across a report that Haldeman, Ehrlichman and another White House aide, Dwight Chapin, were homosexual "lovers." The FBI dug into the rumor, Hoover told the President, and turned in a report proving that it was unfounded. Ehrlichman suspected that Hoover manufactured the rumor so as to win White House favor by disproving...