Old Soul, good addition here, thanks. I saw that same quote yesterday, in a social media post, and found it fascinating. He confirms what we ('we' defined as right-thinking youths in 1968, when I was 20) feared, suspected, but couldn't confirm. That always felt like we were being paranoid to assume they'd thought that through, and here's Erlichman saying that's exactly what happened. Too bad this didn't come out a few decades ago, so we could have saved some of the lives lost in the so-called war on drugs, people spending lifetimes in prison for no good reason.