Report Nixon aide says war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies. Story highlightsThe Nixon campaign in 1. Nixon White House after that, had two enemies the antiwar left and black people, former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harpers writer Dan Baum. Ehrlichmans comment is the first time the war on drugs has been plainly characterized as a political assault designed to help Nixon win, and keep, the White House. Programs AZ. Find program websites, online videos and more for your favorite PBS shows. It has been said elsewhere in this forum that the Pella Architect, Marvin Ultimate and Anderson Woodwright windows are comparable. Im looking for new window units. Chief Architect Premier X8 18 Crack Win Mac latest is a professional CAD software, designed for 3D architectural design. The user can easily design. Download activate Chief Architect Premier X9 2. Product key works 100 Duration 501. Get smart 2,960 views. Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service. Chief Architect With Crack' title='Chief Architect With Crack' />Washington CNNOne of Richard Nixons top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 2. Harpers Magazine. The Nixon campaign in 1. Nixon White House after that, had two enemies the antiwar left and black people, former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harpers writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday. You understand what Im saying We knew we couldnt 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, Ehrlichman said. We could arrest their leaders. Did we know we were lying about the drugs Of course we did. Ehrlichmans comment is the first time the war on drugs has been plainly characterized as a political assault designed to help Nixon win, and keep, the White House. Its a stark departure from Nixons public explanation for his first piece of legislation in the war on drugs, delivered in message to Congress in July 1. However, Nixons political focus on white voters, the Silent Majority, is well known. And Nixons derision for minorities in private is well known from his White House recordings. The comments come as there has been a marked shift in attitudes toward handling drug use ranging from the legalization of marijuana in various states to White House candidates focusing heavily on treatment as an answer to New Hampshires heroin epidemic while they were campaigning across the state. Ehrlichman died in 1. We never saw or heard anything from our dad, John Ehrlichman, that was derogatory about any person of color, wrote Peter Ehrlichman, Tom Ehrlichman, Jan Ehrlichman, Michael Ehrlichman and Jody E. Pineda in a statement provided to CNN. The 1. 99. 4 alleged quote we saw repeated in social media for the first time today does not square with what we know of our father. And collectively, that spans over 1. Ehrlichman family wrote. We do not subscribe to the alleged racist point of view that this writer now implies 2. John and 1. 6 years following our fathers death, when dad can no longer respond. None of us have raised our kids that way, and thats because we were not raised that way. Ehrlichmans comments did not surface until now after Baum remembered them while going back through old notes for the Harpers story. Baum said he had no reason to believe Ehrlichman was being dishonest and viewed them as atonement from a man long after his tumultuous run in the White House ended. I think Ehrlichman was waiting for someone to come and ask him. I think he felt bad about it. I think he had a lot to feel bad about, same with Egil Krogh, who was another Watergate guy. Baum told CNN. Baum interviewed Ehrlichman and others for his 1. Smoke and Mirrors, but said he left out the Ehrlichman comment from the book because it did not fit the narrative style focused on putting the readers in the middle of the backroom discussions themselves, without input from the author. Baum equated Ehrlichmans admission with traumatic war stories that often take decades for veterans to talk about and said it clearly took time for Ehrlichman and other Nixon aides he interviewed to candidly explain the war on drugs. These guys, they knew theyd done bad things and they were glad finally when it was no longer going to cost them anything to be able to talk about it, to atone for it. Baum said. Nobody goes in to public service, I dont think, on either side of the political aisle, to be repressive, to be evil. They go in because they care about the country. Trump dumps controversial chief strategist Bannon in latest upheaval. WASHINGTONHAGERSTOWN, Md. Reuters President Donald Trump on Friday fired his chief strategist Steve Bannon in the latest White House shake up, removing a far right architect of his 2. Bannons firing, a year and a day after Trump hired him as his campaign chief, put an abrupt end to the rabble rousing political provocateurs tumultuous tenure in a White House riven with rivalries and back stabbing during which he clashed with more moderate factions. He was instrumental in some of Trumps most contentious policy moves including the ban on people from several Muslim majority countries, abandoning the Paris climate accord, tearing up international trade agreements and cracking down on illegal immigration. He was no friend of the Republican political establishment and was loathed by liberals but was a darling of some of the presidents hard line conservative supporters. White House officials said Trump had told new Chief of Staff John Kelly to crack down on the bickering and infighting, and that Bannons fate was sealed by comments published on Wednesday in the American Prospect liberal magazine in which he spoke of targeting his adversaries within the administration. Trump, seven months into his presidency, has become increasingly isolated over his comments following white supremacist violence in the Virginia college town of Charlottesville last Saturday and his attacks on fellow Republicans. Some Republicans had even begun questioning Trumps capacity to govern. As Trump came under fire from Republicans including two former presidents, and from business leaders and U. S. allies abroad, he faced mounting calls for Bannons ouster. Critics had accused Bannon of harboring anti Semitic and white nationalist sentiments. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steves last day, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement. Bannon returned to his post as executive chairman of right wing Breitbart News on Friday afternoon, the website said. Prior to joining the Trump campaign, he had spearheaded Breitbarts shift into a forum for the alt right, a loose online confederation of neo Nazis, white supremacists and anti Semites. Bannon said his departure from the White House signals a major shift for the Trump agenda. The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over, Bannon told the conservative Weekly Standard. I just think his ability to get anything done particularly the bigger things, like the wall, the bigger, broader things that we fought for, its just gonna be that much harder, Bannon said. He said he would use Breitbart to attack opponents of the populist and nationalist agenda he championed, including establishment Republicans. I am definitely going to crush the opposition, Bannon said. He became the latest key figure to abruptly depart a Trump White House that has been chaotic from its first days and already has lost a chief of staff, a national security adviser, two communications directors and a chief spokesman. Trumps presidency also has been dogged by ongoing investigations in Congress and a special counsel named by the Justice Department into potential collusion between his presidential campaign and Russia, something both Trump and Moscow deny. Bannon, 6. 3, is a former U. S. Navy officer, Goldman Sachs investment banker and Hollywood movie producer. He had been in a precarious position before but Trump opted to keep him, in part because he had played a major role in Trumps November 2. Democrat Hillary Clinton and was backed by many of the presidents most loyal rank and file supporters. Democrats cheered Bannons departure. President Donald Trump talks to senior staff Steve Bannon during a swearing in ceremony for senior staff at the White House in Washington, DC January 2. REUTERSCarlos BarriaSteve Bannons firing is welcome news, said Nancy Pelosi, the top House of Representatives Democrat. The Trump Administration must not only purge itself of the remaining white supremacists on staff, but abandon the bigoted ideology that clearly governs its decisions. Whisper Program Paltalk: Software Free Download. MARKETS REACT Wall Street indexes and the U. S. dollar ended a volatile session lower after a week of drama in Washington intensified doubts about Trumps ability to deliver on policy objectives such as tax cuts. After a late morning boost following reports of Bannons ouster, the dollar and U. S. equities lost ground. Bannon felt a close ideological connection to Trumps populist tendencies and America First message. Like Trump, he has also expressed deep skepticism concerning ongoing American military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. The decision to fire Bannon could undermine Trumps support among far right voters but might ease tensions within the White House and with party leaders. Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress but have been unable to pass major legislative goals including a healthcare overhaul. Trump ran into trouble after saying anti racism demonstrators in Charlottesville were as responsible for the violence as the neo Nazis and white supremacists who instigated the protests, and that there were very fine people among both groups. Those remarks sparked rebukes from fellow Republicans, top corporate executives and some close allies. Bannons departure removes a large source of friction on the White House staff, but does not herald a significant shift by Trump toward the center on major policy issues, three administration officials said. A good deal of what was attributed to Bannon, for example on China trade and restricting immigration, and the border wall, all came before Bannon joined the campaign and would have happened without him, said one White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Bannon has been a hawk on China, urging a tougher line on trade to correct a huge trade imbalance and dismissive of recent efforts to try to elicit Beijings help to rein in North Korea. In his comments to American Prospect, Bannon said the United States was in an economic war with China. A second official said the biggest winners from Bannons departure are national security adviser H. R. Mc. Master Gary Cohn, Trumps chief economic adviser and Trumps daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner. Bannons departure cast a cloud over the future of the group of allies he had brought into the White House, such as Sebastian Gorka. Some conservative activists expressed disappointment in Bannons ouster. Republicans were largely quiet, though moderate Republican congresswoman Ileana Ros Lehtinen said she was glad Bannon was out but that the administration must work to build bridges, not destroy them. By the time Trump had hired Bannon as campaign manager, the real estate magnate had already vanquished his Republican opponents for the partys presidential nomination. Asked about Bannon on Tuesday, Trump called him a friend of mine but downplayed his contribution to his election victory. Mr. Bannon came on very late. You know that. I went through 1. I won all the primaries. Mr. Bannon came on very much later than that. And I like him. He is a good man. He is not a racist, Trump said.