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...presidential selection process, said the close observer, weeds out people who have "normal emotions and normal reactions to situations." Therefore we end up with "single-dimension, single-purpose, carefully bred, genetically selected creatures." The forum was PBS's Dick Cavett Show, the observer was John Ehrlichman, and the creature who prompted his comment was his former boss Richard Nixon. During the Watergate hearings, asked Cavett, did Ehrlichman feel he was being held to the fire by "men more honorable than yourself?" "Well," Ehrlichman replied, "I never had that suspicion about the Senate in general." As for the Watergate committee...
Remember Watergate? John Ehrlichman does, probably somewhat differently from you and me. The former Nixon aide says that the effect of Watergate on the nation is "like pretty girls . . . not entirely good and not entirely bad." Anyone interested in more such pearls from Ehrlichman can tune in on his new 2½-min., five-day-a-week radio commentary, The View from Here, airing Oct. 2 on more than 900 stations. In a promo record, he comments on the upcoming Begin-Sadat meeting at Camp David. Noting that there is only one kitchen that serves guests at the presidential retreat...
...John Ehrlichman, former presidential assistant who just got out of jail, on Richard Nixon: "I have done my time. I don't think he is ever going to stop doing his time...
...John Ehrlichman threw a tennis ball high in the air, and lashed at it, his neck cords straining. " ?The Ends of Power...
...factual parallax. And there is a recollection gap in Haldeman's account of my suggestion to Nixon that he listen to his tape of his March 21, 1973, meeting with John Dean to determine the dimension of his problem with Dean. Haldeman writes: "At that point I thought Ehrlichman didn't even know about the tapes." In fact, I did not know of the taping system then. But I had been told that Nixon had taped that one meeting with Dean. Haldeman had told...