The disputed Ehrlichman quote in Harper's Magazine

MAR 23 2016 · 12:00

Discussion of Dan Baum's 2016 Harper's piece quoting Nixon aide John Ehrlichman as saying the drug war was designed to target antiwar leftists and Black Americans. The remark rests on a single unrecorded 1994 interview and Ehrlichman's family and several historians dispute it, so it is best treated as a contested claim rather than settled fact.