John Ehrlichman Quotes in Nixon (1995)

H. R. Haldeman: Eight words back in '72. 'I covered up. I was wrong. I'm sorry'. The American public would have forgiven him. But we never opened our mouths, John. We failed him.

John Ehrlichman: Dick Nixon apologize? That will be the day. Most of his armor would fall off.

H. R. Haldeman: You'll tell Mitchell?

[Ehrlichman nods. Haldeman turns to go, then hesitates]

H. R. Haldeman: And John... you *do* know that you and I are next?

John Ehrlichman: You got people dying because he didn't make the varsity football team. You got the Constitution hanging by a thread because the old man went to Whittier instead of Yale.

John Ehrlichman: Well, sir, it turns out one of the people implicated is still on the White House payroll.

Richard M. Nixon: Who? Not another damn Cuban?

H. R. Haldeman: No sir. A guy named Hunt. Howard Hunt, sir.

Richard M. Nixon: [Fear creeping on his face] Hunt? Howard Hunt?

John Ehrlichman: We created Frankenstein with these damn Cubans.

John Ehrlichman: What's this Bay of Pigs thing? He goes white every time you mention it.

H. R. Haldeman: It's a code.