JOHN D. EHRLICHMAN Watergate conspirator

"I think we ought to let him [FBI Director Patrick Gray] hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind."
-- Ehrlichman in a phone conversation to White House counsel John Dean, March 7-8, 1973

John D. Ehrlichman, President Nixon's domestic affairs adviser who was imprisoned for 18 months for his part in the Watergate conspiracy, died February 14 in Atlanta. He was 73, and had suffered from diabetes.

Ehrlichman, who along with H.R. Haldeman was one of Nixon's two top advisers, resigned from his White House post in April 1973 and was convicted two years later for obstruction of justice, conspiracy and perjury in the attempted cover-up of the Watergate burglary and related crimes.

After his release from prison, Ehrlichman later moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he began a new career as an artist, writer and commentator. He wrote four books. He eventually moved to Atlanta where he was senior vice president of Law Environmental.