JOHN ERLICHMAN

I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

The president is the government.

You can't have fifteen people coming together to give the president advice in a Cabinet session. They're all arguing with each other for their own interests and he gets confused. What he decides has to come to him in an orderly way.

Narcotics suppression is a very sexy political issue.

Approved, if done under your assurance that it is not traceable.

The Mad Monk

[FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover seemed to me like an old boxer who had taken too many punches. He had stayed in the fight past his time, feebly counterpunching. But he had lost his judgement and vigor. He had become an embarrassment.

Narcotics suppression is a very sexy political issue.

[FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover seemed to me like an old boxer who had taken too many punches. He had stayed in the fight past his time, feebly counterpunching. But he had lost his judgement and vigor. He had become an embarrassment.

Approved, if done under your assurance that it is not traceable.

I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

The Mad Monk

The president is the government.

You can't have fifteen people coming together to give the president advice in a Cabinet session. They're all arguing with each other for their own interests and he gets confused. What he decides has to come to him in an orderly way.