Word: ehrlichman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Agnew came in as I was putting down the telephone. In a somewhat contemptuous, unfeeling manner, Agnew said that Nixon was kidding himself if he thought he could avoid firing Haldeman and Ehrlichman. He would be lucky to save himself...
...April drew to a close, in almost every conversation, Nixon asked me in his elliptical manner whether Haldeman and Ehrlichman should resign, without giving me any reason for it. It was a strange query. Not once did Nixon tell me his version of events. He maintained in private the same posture he had adopted in public, that every revelation...
...Sunday, April 29,1 was in New York when I received a phone call from Nixon at Camp David. Nearly incoherent with grief, he told me that he had just asked Haldeman and Ehrlichman to resign. Richard Kleindienst, the Attorney General, had also submitted his resignation. John Dean was being fired. The President said he needed me more than ever. He hoped I was abandoning any thought of resignation...
...squeezing to the sidelines potential competitors for my attention. At the same time, I am sure, he was not above presenting himself to my subordinates as the good guy tempering my demanding, somewhat unbalanced, nature. He worked assiduously at establishing his own personal relationship first with Haldeman and Ehrlichman, then with Nixon. I did not doubt that they considered him more of a loyalist than me. I began to wonder whether Haig always resisted Nixon's version that I was a temperamental genius in need of reining in by stabler personalities, and that he could be helpful in tranquilizing...
...justice, abuse of power and defying subpoenas). I could not bear the righteous moralizing of the commentators or the self-serving comments of some Congressmen, even as I realized that had I been on that committee my duty would have been to vote with the majority. On July 31, Ehrlichman was sentenced to 20 months to five years for conspiracy and perjury. In destroying himself, Nixon wrecked the lives of many who had come into contact with...