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...meantime, the trial of John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former top aide for domestic affairs, and three erstwhile White House "plumbers" was continuing in Washington. Ehrlichman is charged with one count of conspiracy and four counts of perjury: authorizing the plumbers' burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist hi September 1971 and then lying about his involvement hi the affair to the FBI and to a Watergate grand jury. Ehrlichman maintains that he knew nothing about the break-in until after it had occurred...
Presidents Bok and Horner, Doris Kearns, associate professor of Government, James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, and Dr. Robert Coles '50, research psychiatrist to the University Health Services, made the list...
Merrill charged that Ehrlichman, despite his denials, was shown by the memos to have had advance knowledge of the break-in at the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, who had been Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. The Government contends that the burglary was part of an attempt by the White House to gather psychiatric information on Ellsberg, who had released the Pentagon papers to the press, and to use that material to smear him. According to the prosecutor, Ehrlichman had approved the burglary and had told his subordinates in the plumbers group: "O.K., let me know if they find anything...
Save Neck. Prosecutor Merrill claimed that Krogh and Young discussed the burglary with Ehrlichman on Aug. 5, then wrote a memo to him on Aug. 11 recommending that "a covert operation be conducted to examine all the papers of Ellsberg's psychiatrist." Ehrlichman has conceded marking this memo "approved . . . if done under your assurance that it is not traceable." After Fielding's office was surveyed by Hunt and Liddy, Merrill claimed, Young and Krogh told Ehrlichman on Aug. 30 that the operation was feasible, and he gave the final go-ahead...
Born in Brooklyn, Ornstein was a two-time citywide high school math champion and wavered between physics and poetry before compromising on psychology at Queens College. He got his doctorate at Stanford, writing his thesis on the perception of time; later he collaborated with Psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo on a book called On the Psychology of Meditation. Ornstein is currently at work on seven more books. He is also teaching at the U.C. Medical Center in San Francisco, lecturing, traveling and organizing symposia on the nature of consciousness. A bachelor, he tools around in a hot orange Porsche 914 and lives...