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.

See also

• Modified limited hangout, a phrase Ehrlichman used in the Watergate tapes