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Such gibes saddened those who liked Ehrlichman. Long ago, the tightlipped, buttoned-down Haldeman was written off as a man of blacks and whites, allies v. enemies, a man with no desire to be liked and not likely...
...Although Haldeman and Ehrlichman have merged into one formidable figure in the public mind, "This is unfair to Ehrlichman," says one who knew both well. "Ehrlichman was a good person to work with; you always got a fair hearing from him. He has a nice sense of humor and was never curt-not that Prussian image. He would sit with his feet on the desk and talk ideas. But Haldeman-well, the public image is the correct one. I've never known him to crack a joke. I've never known him to seem relaxed...
...campaign began to gear up, there was bad blood between Ehrlichman and John N. Mitchell. When Clark MacGregor took over, the same friction persisted. Ehrlichman wanted a bigger voice in strategy, and his differences with MacGregor grew to the point that the two had to have it out, with Haldeman as mediator. Haldeman noted that Ehrlichman had made his point-and backed MacGregor. It was one of the rare times the two friends came down on different sides of a problem. As time went on, both seemed to feel the Government of the U.S. was synonymous with the presidency. Ehrlichman...
...meeting in John Mitchell's office. When he realized that the purpose was to induce him to raise more money for the defendants, Kalmbach testified, he left the meeting. In hindsight, he said, he regarded the work as "an improper, illegal act," and implied that he felt Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean and Mitchell had betrayed...
...second day of testimony, Kalmbach described an earlier escapade on the Administration's behalf. He said that in 1970, under orders from Haldeman's aide Lawrence M. Higby, he collected $400,000 in funds left over from the 1968 campaign and delivered it to men he had never met before Kalmbach said he eventually came to believe that the funds were used in an unsuccessful effort to defeat George C. Wallace in the 1970 Democratic primary campaign for Governor of Alabama; such a defeat might have kept Wallace from taking votes away from