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...Adviser John Ehrlichman, once described by Nixon as one of "the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know," to a term of 20 months to five years in prison. Ehrlichman was convicted last month on conspiracy and perjury charges growing out of the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in September 1971. (Ehrlichman will appeal the verdict.) The sentence was the stiffest yet received by a presidential intimate for crimes growing out of Watergate and related events...
...areas of presidential activity: 1) attempted abuse of IRS information and audits; 2) use of wiretaps for purposes other than national security; 3) creation of the White House squad of secret investigators, the "plumbers"; 4) failure to prevent subordinates from impeding such investigations as those into the Watergate and Ellsberg burglaries; 5) interfering with the FBI, CIA, Watergate special prosecution force and the Department of Justice. The article was assailed by Wiggins as citing no violation of law, while his position was challenged by California Democrat George Danielson...
Even Wiggins conceded that attempts by John Dean to get the IRS to audit 575 supporters of Presidential Candidate George McGovern in 1972 were "absolutely indefensible." Nixon Defender Mayne similarly admitted that the plumbers had been "caught in a miserable crime" when they sought files from Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. But in both instances, the loyalists insisted, there was no evidence that Nixon had approved the acts. Moreover, since the political audits never were carried out, New Jersey's Charles Sandman declared that to impeach Nixon for that would be to be punish him "for a thought...
...back of his chair, then slowly sank down into his seat. Gesell had just sentenced the former White House domestic adviser to three concurrent prison terms of 20 months to five years each-for one count of conspiracy in authorizing the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis Fielding, and two counts of perjury in testifying before federal grand juries. Ehrlichman will not be eligible for parole until he has served 20 months. He is appealing the verdict...
...These men," the psychiatrist recalled in a previously secret affidavit, "were interested in obtaining information which could be used to defame or manipulate Ellsberg." The result was an unflattering portrait that emphasized "strong, although fluctuant, emotional attachments" and "sudden and extreme shifts in loyalty and enthusiasm." The new report referred to Ellsberg as "a very intelligent man" and denied that he was "emotionally disturbed in a psychotic or gross manner." It briefly mentioned his sex life and two years of psychoanalysis, but its focus was on traumatic childhood experiences?especially a car accident at 15 in which his mother...