John Ehrlichman(1925-1999)

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Our Nixon (2013)

John Ehrlichman was born on 20 March 1925 in Tacoma, Washington, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Washington: Behind Closed Doors (1977), The Silence of Cricket Coogler (2000) and Our World (1986). He was married to Karen Hilliard, Christy McLaurine and Jeanne Fisher. He died on 14 February 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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Alternative name
- John D. Ehrlichman
Born
- March 20, 1925
- Tacoma, Washington, USA
Died
- February 14, 1999
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA(complications from diabetes)
Spouses
Other works
Book: "Witness to Power: The Nixon Years." New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0671242962
Publicity listings
- 12 Portrayals
- 1 Magazine Cover Photo

Trivia
Biography in: "American National Biography." Supplement 1, pp. 180-182. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Quotes
Regarding beginning the war on drugs, "You want to know what this was really all about?", "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."