Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could… — John Ehrlichman Copy Share Image
Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their… — John Ehrlichman Copy Share Image
I think we ought to let him hang there, let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind. — John Ehrlichman Copy Share Image
[T]he Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what… — John Ehrlichman Copy Share Image
Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind. — John Ehrlichman Copy Share Image
![“[T]he 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.” quote by John Ehrlichman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ae/john-ehrlichman-73725_antiwar_t-he-nixon-campaign-in-1968-and-the-nixo_1977864.jpg)
