John Ehrlichman

John Ehrlichman    (lawyer)
Born	John Daniel Ehrlichman 1925-03-20 Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Died	1999-02-14 (Age 73) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles, Stanford Law School
Religion	Christian Science
Spouse	Karen Hilliard
Exposed	“War on Drugs”
Party	Republican
Nixon insider who blew in 1994 the whistle on the "War on Drugs"  White House Domestic Affairs Advisor In office November 4, 1969 - April 30, 1973  White House Counsel  In office January 20, 1969 - November 4, 1969 Succeeded by Chuck Colson

John Ehrlichman famously admitted to Harper's Magazine that the "war on drugs" was a fraud.

“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.”
John Ehrlichman (1994) 

 

A Quote by John Ehrlichman

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Blowback	“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.”	1994	Harper's Magazine

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