Former aides to President Richard Nixon disavowed a recently published, provocative quote from a colleague about the racial motivation behind the war on drugs, and suggested that the colleague was ...

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Nixon’s War on Drugs was an earnest, if catastrophic, personal failing. Credit: DAVID FENTON/Getty Images A new article in Harper’s quotes Nixon’s domestic czar John Ehrlichman as saying the War on ...

NEW YORK, March 22 (UPI) --A top aide to President Richard Nixon said the "War on Drugs" was created to punish anti-war protesters and African-Americans, according to a report in Harper's Magazine.

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