enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. John Ehrlichman - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman

    John Daniel Ehrlichman (/ ˈ ɜːr l ɪ k m ə n /; [1] March 20, 1925 – February 14, 1999) was an American political aide who served as White House Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon. Ehrlichman was an important influence on Nixon's domestic policy, coaching him on issues and enlisting ...

  3. Nixon official reportedly admitted to racist origin of war on ...

    www.aol.com/news/2016-03-23-nixon-official...

    Here is Baum's recollection of the conversation: At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he ...

  4. Race and the war on drugs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_the_war_on_drugs

    John Bass was charged with two counts of homicide, and the government sought the death penalty. Bass filed for dismissal, along with a discovery request alleging that the death sentence was racially motivated. When the government refused to comply with the discovery request, the District Court dismissed the death penalty notice.

  5. Legalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalization_of_non...

    Former Nixon aide and Watergate co-conspirator John Ehrlichman said the following to author Dan Baum in an interview regarding the politics of drug prohibition: "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people.

  6. The Company (Ehrlichman novel) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Company_(Ehrlichman_novel)

    The Company is a political fiction roman à clef novel written by John Ehrlichman, a former close aide to President Richard Nixon and a figure in the Watergate scandal, first published in 1976 by Simon & Schuster. The title is an insider nickname for the Central Intelligence Agency.

  7. L. Frank Baum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum

    Lyman Frank Baum (/ b ɔː m /; [1] May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series.

  8. War on drugs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs

    In a 2016 Harper's cover story, Ehrlichman, who died in 1999, [132] was quoted from journalist Dan Baum's 1994 interview notes: "... 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 ...

  9. The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreamer_of_Oz:_The_L...

    78 year old Mrs. Baum has been invited to attend the premiere. Before she enters the theatre a young journalist recognizes her and asks if he may interview her. She politely agrees and begins to recount how she first met her husband. The story is interspersed with the famous Oz story, shown at certain points when Baum is writing down his ideas.