John Ehrlichman

John Daniel Ehrlichman (March 20, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon and a key figure in the Watergate scandal. Born in Tacoma, Washington, Ehrlichman won the Distinguished Flying Cross as a lead navigator in the Eighth Air Force in World War II. After the war, he enrolled and graduated from UCLA in 1948, Stanford Law School. After schooling, 1951 he joined a Seattle law firm as a partner in until 1968 when he left for politics.

Post political life

Following his release, he held a number of jobs first for a quality control firm, then writer, artist and commentator. In a 1981 interview Ehrlichman referred to Nixon as "a very pathetic figure in American history." His experiences in the Nixon administration were published in his 1982 book, Witness To Power. The book portrays Nixon in a very negative light and is considered to be the culmination of his frustration at not being pardoned by Nixon prior to his own resignation.

Related Topics:
Quality control - 1981 - Nixon administration - 1982 book

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Ehrlichman died of complications from diabetes in Atlanta in 1999 after discontinuing dialysis treatments.

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Diabetes - 1999

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In 2005 a personal friend claimed Ehrlichman believed Henry Kissinger to be Deep Throat.

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2005 - Henry Kissinger - Deep Throat

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